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Webster 1913 Edition


Donna

Don′na

,
Noun.
[It.
donna
, L.
domina
. See
Don
,
Dame
.]
A lady; madam; mistress; – the title given a lady in Italy.

Definition 2024


Donna

Donna

See also: donna, dónna, dònna, and Dønna

English

Proper noun

Donna

  1. A female given name.
    • 1914 Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Ariadne of Allan Water, Burt, 1914, page 30:
      "Did you ever know a lady named Miss May-rant? With a funny sort of first name, like Donna? Yes, that is it - Miss Donna May-rant."
    • 1958 Ritchie Valens Donna ( a song) :
      I had a girl / Donna was her name. / Since she left me / I've never been the same.

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Usage notes

  • Popular in the U.S.A. in the 1940s and the 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1970s and the 1980s.

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Plautdietsch

Noun

Donna

  1. thunder

See also

donna

donna

See also: Donna, dónna, dònna, and Dønna

English

Noun

donna (plural donnas)

  1. A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
    • 1837, Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)
      What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones []
    • 2005, Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni, page 22
      In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna Anna, the sentimental and spurned Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.

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Finnish

Noun

donna

  1. (slang) woman

Declension

Inflection of donna (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative donna donnat
genitive donnan donnien
partitive donnaa donnia
illative donnaan donniin
singular plural
nominative donna donnat
accusative nom. donna donnat
gen. donnan
genitive donnan donnien
donnainrare
partitive donnaa donnia
inessive donnassa donnissa
elative donnasta donnista
illative donnaan donniin
adessive donnalla donnilla
ablative donnalta donnilta
allative donnalle donnille
essive donnana donnina
translative donnaksi donniksi
instructive donnin
abessive donnatta donnitta
comitative donnineen

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French

Verb

donna

  1. third-person singular past historic of donner

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔn̪ˠə/, /ˈd̪ˠʊn̪ˠə/

Adjective

donna

  1. nominative and vocative and dative and strong genitive plural of donn

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
donna dhonna ndonna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina (lady, mistress of an estate or household), from dominus (master), from domus (home).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɔnna]
  • Hyphenation: dòn‧na

Noun

donna f (plural donne)

  1. (archaic) lady
  2. woman
  3. wife
  4. (card games, chess) queen
  5. actress

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Chess pieces in Italian · pezzi degli scacchi (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
re regina,
donna
torre alfiere cavallo pedone
Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
asso due tre quattro cinque sei sette
otto nove dieci fante donna,
regina
re jolly, joker,
matta

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Japanese

Romanization

donna

  1. rōmaji reading of どんな