Dana

¹

[dah-nuh]

noun

Irish Mythology.

1. Danu.

Dana

²

[dey-nuh]

noun

1. Charles Anderson, 1819–97, U.S. journalist, editor, and publisher.

2. Edward Salisbury, 1849–1935, U.S. mineralogist and physicist.

3. his father James Dwight, 1813–95, U.S. geologist and mineralogist.

4. Richard Henry, Jr., 1815–82, U.S. jurist, author, and sailor: specialist in admiralty law.

5. a male or female given name.

Dana

/ ˈdeɪnə /

noun

1. James Dwight (dwaɪt). 1813–95, American geologist; noted for his work The System of Mineralogy (1837)

Example Sentences

“You have to stop it with the Twitter thing,” said host Dana Perino.

From Los Angeles Times

And she plays Dana, the charge nurse at this hospital.

From Los Angeles Times

He intends to “significantly scale” the amount of content the studio produces and has entrusted his longtime deputy Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, a former Sony executive, as co-chairs of Paramount Pictures.

From Los Angeles Times

After that, it was all stand-up, touring the country as an opener for high-profile comics like Chelsea Handler and Dana Gould.

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A mixed martial arts fight card to be held next summer at the White House is “absolutely going to happen,” Ultimate Fight Championship Chief Executive Dana White said Tuesday.

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