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  jordan

  noun

  chamber pot.
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  Jordan

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  Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.

jordan

¹ American  

[jawr-dn] / ˈdʒɔr dn /

noun

British Dialect.

1. chamber pot.

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Jordan ² American  

[jawr-dn, zhawr-dahn] / ˈdʒɔr dn, ʒɔrˈdɑ̃ /

noun

1. Barbara Charline, 1936–96, U.S. politician.

2. David Starr 1851–1931, U.S. biologist and educator.

3. June, 1936–2002, U.S. poet, novelist, and essayist.

4. Marie Ennemond Camille 1838–1922, French mathematician.

5. Michael Jeffrey Air JordanHis Airness, born 1963, U.S. basketball player.

6. Official Name Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  a kingdom in southwest Asia, consisting of the former Transjordan and a part of Palestine that, since 1967, has been occupied by Israel. 37,264 square miles (96,514 square kilometers). Amman.

7. a river in southwest Asia, flowing from southern Lebanon through the Sea of Galilee, then south between Israel and Jordan through western Jordan into the Dead Sea. 200 miles (320 kilometers) long.

8. a male given name.

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Jordan ¹ British  

/ ˈdʒɔːdən /

noun

1. Former name (1922–49): Trans-Jordan.  Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  a kingdom in SW Asia: coextensive with the biblical Moab, Gilead, and Edom; made a League of Nations mandate and emirate under British control in 1922 and became an independent kingdom in 1946; territories west of the River Jordan and the Jordanian part of Jerusalem (intended to be part of an autonomous Palestine) were occupied by Israel after the war of 1967. It contains part of the Great Rift Valley and consists mostly of desert. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim. Currency: dinar. Capital: Amman. Pop: 6 482 081 (2013 est). Area: 89 185 sq km (34 434 sq miles)

2. the chief and only perennial river of Israel and Jordan, rising in several headstreams in Syria and Lebanon, and flowing south through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea: occupies the N end of the Great Rift Valley system and lies mostly below sea level. Length: over 320 km (200 miles)

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Jordan ² British  

/ ˈdʒɔːdən /

noun

1. Michael ( Jeffrey ). born 1963, US basketball player

2. Neil. born 1950, Irish film director and writer; his films include The Company of Wolves (1984), Mona Lisa (1986), The Crying Game (1992), Michael Collins (1996), The End of the Affair (2000), and The Brave One (2007)

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Jordan Cultural  

1. Monarchy in the Middle East, bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, and Israel to the west. Amman is its capital and largest city.

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Jordan is an Arab nation.

King Hussein, a controversial figure in Middle Eastern affairs, ruled from 1953 until his death in 2000. Although he tried to maintain cordial relations with the West, he opposed the Egypt (see also Egypt)-Israel peace agreement of 1979, endorsed the Palestine Liberation Organization, and refused to join the alliance against Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.

Other Word Forms

• Jordanian
  adjective
• anti-Jordan
  adjective
• pro-Jordan
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of jordan

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English jurdan “urinal,” perhaps after the river Jordan, by coarse jesting

Example Sentences

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jordan Jordan

And oft the innocent young, By sleep o'ermastered, think they lift their dress By pail or public jordan and then void The water filtered down their frame entire And drench the Babylonian coverlets, Magnificently bright.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Ohio congressman Jim Jordan was on television just days ago, calling Miller “a good man” whom he’s helping to reelect.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

Speaker Mike Johnson and other senior House Republicans have largely avoided commenting, while Ohio congressmen Jim Jordan and Mike Turner described the accusations as a private or judicial matter.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Lacking oil and surrounded by bigger powers, Jordan has relied on the U.S. for decades as a protector and for as much as $2 billion in annual military and economic aid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Midfielder Jordan Henderson, 36, is also set to arrive after Chelsea were unable to secure Alonso's former Bayer Leverkusen captain Granit Xhaka from Sunderland.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Maybe while strolling through the sidewalks of the Jordan district that she loved to visit, I would meet a woman like you.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi