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Jon

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.

    "I suppose I ought to call you Uncle Jack now." "Please don't. My name is Jonathan, and I've never had a nickname. Doesn't go with my character. So, Uncle Jon - if you must."

    Inundated with anti-Semitic tweets and frustrated by Twitter's initial response, New York Times editor Jon Weisman is packing up and leaving the social media platform.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Forms

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

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