Ona
Americannoun
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Onas,
plural
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Ona
plural
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a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
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a female given name.
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And, for me, a loaf of chocolate zucchini bread from a little Amish market and greenhouse somewhere outside Ona, West Virginia.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Arsenal have had a busy transfer window as they prepare for the 2026-27 Women's Super League season, with Georgia Stanway, Ona Batlle, Selina Cerci, Geraldine Reuteler and Lisa Baum all reinforcing Renee Slegers' squad.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
"She is a leader, especially on the field, where she demonstrates it the most. She is considered the brain and nerve of the team," Ona Batlle, a team-mate for club and country, told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2023
Wael Hana, 40, entered the plea at a hearing before Magistrate Judge Ona Wang in federal court in Manhattan.
From Reuters ● Sep. 26, 2023
Eager to please the president, Joseph Whipple located Ona in a matter of hours.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego.
From Time Magazine Archive
Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism.
From Time Magazine Archive
We tried for three days to sneak Onas baby out, but the guard stood near whenever the doors were open.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
Nothing delighted the Indians more than to receive the great Onas as their guest.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Frank Boreham
At present we are at a private Conference about News, and have something of this Sort to mention to our Brother Onas.'
From The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742 To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents, and Allies by Sir George Thomas
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