anna

noun

1. (historical)A former Indian coin.

name

1. A female given name from Latin.

   “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.”

2. A prophetess in the New Testament.

   “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;”

3. A city in Illinois.
4. A city in Texas.
5. A town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
6. A village in Järva, Estonia.
7. A village in Fars Province, Iran.
8. A village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran.
9. A village in Ohio; after Anna Thirkield, an early settler.
10. A municipality of the Valencian Community, Spain.
11. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.