John Doe

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A fictitious name used chiefly in legal documents for an unknown or anonymous, usually male, person.
US
Any unknown or anonymous, usually male, person.
US

Equivalents

Españolfulano Juan Pérez menganoNN zutano

FrançaisJean Dupont Jos Bleau tartempionunetelle Untel X

DeutschMax Mustermann N. N.NNOtto Normalverbraucher

17 more languages

العربيةفلان فُلان اِبْن فُلان فُلان الْفُلانِيّ

Esperantoajnulo

SuomiMatti Meikäläinen

GaeilgeSeán Ó Rudaí

Galegoxan

Italianoignoto Mario Rossi nnPinco Pallino

日本語だれだれぼけ山田太郎権兵衛

한국어홍길동

Kurdîmat X xan

Bahasa Melayumat Si Fulan

PolskiJan Kowalski Kowalski NN

Portuguêsfulano Zé da Silva

РусскийВася Пупкин Иван Иванович Иван Иванович Ивановимяре́к

SvenskaNN

TagalogJuan dela Cruz

Türkçesarı çizmeli Mehmet ağa

Tiếng ViệtNguyễn Văn A

Examples

“i.e. "to Tom, Dick or Harry:" the names like ⟳ John Doe and Richard Roe are used indefinitely in Arab.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

John Doree John Dory John Fraud Kerry John Frum John Hancock John Henry

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