Joan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil Alternative spelling of jone.
2. özel isim A female given name from French, a feminine form of John.

   “Maybe my mother didn't name me after Joan Crawford after all, I thought; she just told me that to cover up. She named me after Joan of Arc, didn't she know what happened to women like that?”

3. özel isim A male given name from Catalan, a form of John.
4. isim A placeholder or conventional name for any woman, particularly a younger lower-class woman.

   “Ber. O and I forsoth in loue, I that haue been loues whip?... Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, grone, Some men must loue my Ladie, and some Ione.”

5. isim A kind of close-fitting cap for women popular in the mid-18th century.

   “A grocer's wife attractd our eyes by a new-fashioned cap called a Joan.”