Proper noun

1. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
2. A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
3. ; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
   • 1989 Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:

     I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.

4. derived from the male given name.
5. used since mid-20th century.