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Donna

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdɒnə//
  • United States//ˈdɑnə//
  • United States//ˈdänːə//

A female given name from Italian.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Italian.

    "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."

    I had a girl / Donna was her name. / Since she left me / I've never been the same.

    The group has dramatically raised the stakes, too, in Maryland, ahead of its July 19 primary, already spending more than $4 million to defeat former Rep. Donna Edwards in the 4th Congressional District. J Street’s super PAC recently invested there to defend Edwards with a $500,000 television buy, complementing more than $150,000 in digital and direct mail advertising.

    For Donna Cona, who has played it since before the Times acquisition, Wordle has become her go-to thing each morning.

  2. 2

    A city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, named after postmistress Donna Fletcher.

Etymology

A 19th-century invention from the Italian noun donna; also interpreted as a feminine form of Donald.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Italian.

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Donna.

Forms

plural
Donnas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).