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

He delivered a six-song set that also featured appearances by Bettencourt, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, Lainey Wilson and other musicians, according to Billboard.

From Los Angeles Times

As state Senate leader four decades later, Burton joined folk singer Joan Baez at a protest of President George W. Bush’s impending invasion of Iraq.

From Los Angeles Times

And afterward, according to CNN’s Joan Biskupic, he wrote a letter to Judge Furman essentially apologizing for joining an opinion that slandered him.

From Slate

Called the Joan, short for the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center in recognition of the project’s lead donors, the 42,000-square-foot complex will serve as the theater’s home for productions — its first will be a staging of James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim’s “Follies” — and its offices, while hosting other performance companies from around the region.

From Los Angeles Times

The Joan’s two performance venues — a 280-plus-seat proscenium theater and a 150-seat black box — are built into the surviving part of the building, but many of the spaces around them had to be reconfigured.

From Los Angeles Times