Joan

[john]

noun

1. Fair Maid of Kent, 1328–85, wife of Edward, the Black Prince, and mother of Richard II.

2. a fictitious female pope about a.d. 855–858.

3. a female given name.

Joan

/ dʒəʊn /

noun

1. known as the Fair Maid of Kent. 1328–85, wife of Edward the Black Prince; mother of Richard II

2. Pope legendary female pope, first mentioned in the 13th century: said to have been elected while disguised as a man and to have died in childbirth

Example Sentences

Joan Waller, 87, left and DeeAnne Gunnemann serve themselves German food.

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Saunders will appear as Joan, the sister of Dame Joanna's character Felicity and auntie of the show's titular star Amanda, played by Lucy Punch.

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Home hope Jack Miller, who started from third, crashed out early in the race, as did Frenchman Johann Zarco and Honda's Joan Mir.

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Home hope Jack Miller, who started from third, crashed out early in the race, as did Frenchman Johann Zarco and Spain's Joan Mir.

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Like many in her Brooklyn, N.Y., cohort, Ms. King—born Carol Joan Klein in 1942—is descended from Jews who fled the pogroms of turn-of-the-century czarist Russia.

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