Anna — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A female given name from Latin.

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   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.

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   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!

   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."

   Anna Twiggs bailed her sister out of jail Monday evening. She said she found her sister dead in her bed Wednesday morning.

2. A prophetess in the New Testament.

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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;

3. A city in Illinois.

4. A city in Texas.

5. A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.

6. A village in Järva, Estonia.

7. A village in Fars Province, Iran.

8. A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.

9. A village in Ohio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.

10. A municipality of the Valencian Community, Spain.