ANNA | • anna n. A unit of currency in former British India equal to 12 pies or 1⁄16 rupee. • Anna prop.n. A female given name from Hebrew. • Anna prop.n. A prophetess in the New Testament. |
BANDANNA | • bandanna n. Alternative spelling of bandana. • BANDANNA n. (Hindi) a coloured silk or cotton handkerchief or headscarf, also BANDANA. |
CANNA | • canna n. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers. • canna cont. (Scotland, Cumbria, Jamaica) Contraction of can not; cannot. • canna n. (Historical) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet. |
CARANNA | • caranna n. A hard, brittle, resinous gum, obtained from the West Indian tree Dacryodes excelsa, and formerly used in medicine. • CARANNA n. (Tupi) a resinous substance yielded by various South American trees, also CARAUNA. |
FEISEANNA | • feiseanna n. Plural of feis. • FEIS n. (Irish) an ancient Irish assembly for the proclamation of laws etc. |
GOANNA | • goanna n. Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia. • goanna n. (Australia, rhyming slang) A piano. • GOANNA n. a large monitor lizard. |
HOSANNA | • hosanna interj. A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted… • hosanna n. A cry of ‘hosanna’. • hosanna v. (Intransitive) To give a cry of ‘hosanna’. |
JOANNA | • joanna n. (Cockney rhyming slang, often "old joanna") A piano. • Joanna prop.n. A female given name from Latin [in turn from Hebrew]. • Joanna prop.n. (Biblical) One of the women following Jesus. |
MANNA | • manna n. (Biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. • manna n. (By extension) Any boon which comes into one’s hands by good luck. • manna n. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the… |
NANNA | • nanna n. Grandmother. • Nanna prop.n. (Norse mythology) A goddess, the wife of Balder. • Nanna prop.n. The god of the moon in Sumerian mythology. |
PLATANNA | • platanna n. Any of several clawed frogs of the genus Xenopus which spend most of their time in water and rarely… • PLATANNA n. (South African) the African clawed frog. |
POLLYANNA | • pollyanna n. Alternative form of Pollyanna. • Pollyanna prop.n. A female given name from Hebrew derived from Polly and Anna; rare in the real world. • Pollyanna n. One who is persistently cheerful and optimistic, even when given cause not to be so. |
RABANNA | • rabanna n. A raffia fabric of Madagascar. • RABANNA n. (Malagasy) a kind of raffia fabric. |
SAVANNA | • savanna n. A tropical grassland with scattered trees. • Savanna prop.n. A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, variant of Savannah. • Savanna prop.n. A city in Carroll County, Illinois, United States, across the Mississippi from Iowa. |
TANNA | • tanna n. Alternative form of thana. • Tanna prop.n. An island in Tafea, Vanuatu. • Tanna n. Any of the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishna, from approximately 10–220 CE. |
THANNA | • thanna n. Alternative form of thana. • THANNA n. (Hindi) an Indian police station, also TANA, TANNA, TANNAH, THANA, THANAH, THANNAH. |
WANNA | • wanna cont. (Informal) Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to. • wanna cont. (Informal) Represents a contracted pronunciation of want a. • WANNA v. (colloquial) want to. |