anna
/ˈænə/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.37 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A female given name from Latin.
name
A prophetess in the New Testament.
Example Sentences
- "Every lover the years disclose / Is of a beautiful name made free. / One befriends, and all others are foes. / Anna's the name of names for me."
- "M for Madeleine, M for Marguerite, M for Melanie and the rest, she thought, smiling as she remembered the long string of glamorous names they had invented for her. No wonder plain "Anna" had seemed a little disappointing!"
- "His real name was Leonard, Len. He'd changed it when he came East. "Len," he said. "A turd of a name. Who wants it? I mean a name that ends in a nasalization, for Christ's sake. Leo now. It's like Anna. They go on forever. You can live with a name like that.""
- "Anna Twiggs bailed her sister out of jail Monday evening. She said she found her sister dead in her bed Wednesday morning."
- "And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: अद्, अन्न, Anna, Ἄννα, חַנָּה
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.