edna
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/ˈɛdnə/
Definition of edna
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
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A female given name from Hebrew.
“Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die.”
“'Edna', forsooth! No doubt her origin and morals are quite as apocryphal as her name.”
“Conjure faces to go with these names: Edna and Joy. Then I'll tell you that Edna, who has a wicked serve, is our team beauty, and Joy is as plain and dour as they come.”
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name
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A female given name from Hebrew.
“Edna also said to Tobias, The Lord of heaven restore thee, my dear brother, and grant that I may see thy children of my daughter Sara before I die.”
“'Edna', forsooth! No doubt her origin and morals are quite as apocryphal as her name.”
“Conjure faces to go with these names: Edna and Joy. Then I'll tell you that Edna, who has a wicked serve, is our team beauty, and Joy is as plain and dour as they come.”
- A city, the county seat of Jackson County, Texas, United States.
- A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
noun
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of environmental DNA.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Hebrew עֶדְנָה (“pleasure; delight”); a variant of Eden in the Book of Tobit. In Ireland and Scotland it has been used as an anglicization of Eithne.
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