Ann
noun
Cape Ann, a rocky, scenic peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts, extending into the Atlantic Ocean.
Ann
1 American
[an]
/ æn /
noun
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Cape Ann, a rocky, scenic peninsula in northeastern Massachusetts, extending into the Atlantic Ocean.
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a first name, form of Anna.
ann.
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American
abbreviation
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annals.
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annuity.
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years.
Etymology
Origin of ann.
From the Latin word annī
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Beside him, his wife, Beth Ann, takes a pragmatic approach.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
The co-anchor, who has been part of the NBC news family for almost two decades, is married to sports reporter Lindsay Ann Czarniak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Farage spoke to about 300 Reform members and councillors and opened his speech by paying tribute to Ann Widdecombe, who was killed at her home in Devon.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Computer science became the most popular undergraduate-study major at the public university’s main Ann Arbor campus, according to Michigan’s budget office.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
“Put your left foot in and shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey, and you turn yourself around,” Lou Ann sings along.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
That is to say three thousand six hundred pounds per ann. which in thirty years will amount to an hundred and eight thousand pounds.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift
When he was appointed Latin secretary, his sallary amounted to 200 l. per ann. and tho' he was of the victorious party, yet he was far from sharing the spoils of his country.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Theophilus Cibber
As for Sufferings, I have lost £300 per ann. by being in his Majesty’s service; as I have shown in a Representation which his Majesty has been so good as to read and consider.
From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Nathan Sheppard
Contin. ann. 1323.—Chron. de Jean de S. Victor.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
For some years Mr. Laboire, the pastor, toward his support was 'allowed a yearly sallary of twenty pounds per ann. out of ye Revenue of this Province.'
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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