Joan
Pronunciation Proper noun
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Pronunciation Proper noun
- A female given name, a feminine form of John.
- ~1595 William Shakespeare: King John: Act I, Scene I:
- Well, now I can make any Joan a lady.
- 1979 Margaret Atwood: Lady Oracle, p.336:
- Maybe my mother didn't name me after Joan Crawford after all, I thought; she just told me that to cover up. She named me after Joan of Arc, didn't she know what happened to women like that?
- ~1595 William Shakespeare: King John: Act I, Scene I:
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