Meaning of Anna | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.
   alt-of, alternative, obsolete
2. A former Indian coin.
   historical
3. A female given name from Latin.
4. Ana, a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Ann, Anna, Anne, or Hannah
5. Hannah (Biblical figure)
6. A prophetess in the New Testament.
7. Anna (Biblical prophetess)
8. A city in Illinois.
9. A city in Texas.
10. A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
11. A village in Järva, Estonia.
12. A village in Fars Province, Iran.
13. A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.
14. A village in Ohio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.
15. A municipality of the Valencian Community, Spain.

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Examples

“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!”

“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.”

“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;”

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