anna

/ˈænə/

name 6noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

brown, little, plain

Little Anna held her mother's hand as they walked through the busy market.

VERB + ANNA

likes, remember, twins, wonder

I remember Anna was always the first one to arrive at school.

ANNA + NOUN

chestnut, chocolate, freud, hahner, heart, lisa, thomas

Anna ate a piece of chocolate cake at the bakery yesterday afternoon.

PREP.

from, in, into, than, without

She converted her savings from anna to rupees before traveling to India.

Definitions

noun

A former Indian coin.

name

A female given name from Latin.

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.

M for Madeleine, M for Marguerite, M for Melanie and the rest, she thought, smiling as she remembered the long string of glamorous names they had invented for her. No wonder plain "Anna" had seemed a little disappointing!

A prophetess in the New Testament.

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;

A city in Illinois.

A city in Texas.

A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.

name

Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.

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Example Bank

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.

Wiktionary

M for Madeleine, M for Marguerite, M for Melanie and the rest, she thought, smiling as she remembered the long string of glamorous names they had invented for her. No wonder plain "Anna" had seemed a

Wiktionary

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 Ann

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Anna married without the knowledge of her parents.

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Anna knows the first thousand decimal places of π by heart.

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Before retiring from her company, Anna reached the level of vice president.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, anna is marked as obsolete, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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