Anna
WordNet
noun
(1) A former copper coin of Pakistan
WiktionaryText
Etymology
The Latinate and New Testament form of Ann, from , equal to the female name of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious".
Proper noun
- periodically popular as a variant of Ann in English.
- Ann, the apocryphal mother of Virgin Mary.
- A prophetess who saw the infant Jesus .
Quotations
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- And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
- ~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:
- Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. / Anna's the name of names for me.
- 1986 Sue Miller, The Good Mother, G.K.Hall 1987, ISBN 081614169X, page 183:
- His real name was Leonard, Len. He'd changed it when he came East. "Len," he said. "A turd of a name. Who wants it? I mean a name that ends in a nasalization, for Christ's sake. Leo now. It's like Anna. They go on forever. You can live with a name like that."