dona
noun
Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
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doñanounMadam; Lady: a Spanish title prefixed to a woman's given name.
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Doña
Doñanouna Spanish title of address equivalent to Mrs or Madam : placed before a name to indicate respect
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Dona
Donanouna Portuguese title of address equivalent to Mrs or Madam : placed before a name to indicate respect
dona
1 American
[daw-nah]
/ ˈdɔ nɑ /
noun
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(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Portuguese title prefixed to a woman's given name.
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(in Portuguese-speaking countries) a lady or gentlewoman.
doña
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American
[daw-nyah]
/ ˈdɔ njɑ /
noun
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(initial capital letter) Madam; Lady: a Spanish title prefixed to a woman's given name.
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(in Spanish-speaking countries) a lady or gentlewoman.
Doña
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British
/ ˈdɒnjə, ˈdoɲa /
noun
Dona
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British
/ ˈdõːnə /
noun
Etymology
Origin of dona1
1615–25; < Portuguese < Latin domina, feminine of dominus
Origin of doña2
1615–25; < Spanish < Latin domina, feminine of dominus
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Sin dona is serving a 25-year prison sentence in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
For several successive evenings, great flocks of Rollers mustered shortly before sunset on some dona trees near the fountain, with all the noise but without the decorum of Rooks.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 by Various
Un dona, an Italian phrase meaning a gift or alms.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
And now Anselmo, his pale brow inclined, The honoured relics, dust to dust, consigned With Christian rites, and sung, on bending knee, "Eternam pacem dona, Domine."
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan
Fireworks, too, we carried,—why, you will see later; and so, dona ferentes, we went out to Untertürkheim by rail, a ride of fifteen minutes from Stuttgart.
From One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard
We grandchildren always considered our Mama Chela a doña — a grand Mexican dame who never wore pants and frequently covered her hair with a veil out of modesty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
She looked more the part of a Mexican doña as she dawdled around her tiny apartment on a chilly Friday morning not long before coronavirus became a national crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Today you come back from a run to find her on the stoop, talking to la doña.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 16, 2012
The chauffeur calls out, Buenos días, doña Tatica, and tips his cap at Tatica who lifts her head high above his riffraff.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
"You must excuse him, doña," the woman apologizes.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Oracle set out last year to lease a massive AI data-center campus being built in New Mexico’s Doña Ana County, part of a blitz of deals to create computing power for OpenAI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
With Doña Sylvia’s consent, her bouquets were also sold at the event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
In fact, although much remains to be studied, the Doña Rama site would seem to be a mining town complete with a foundry, a processing area and, possibly, a fortress.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
That's not how Doña Berta Silvestre sees it.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024
My family had never had a Christmas tree, but I remembered how once I had helped Papi wind colored lights around the eggplant bush that divided our land from Doña Ana’s.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
Jumping down from her uncle's shoulders, seven-year-old Dona ran grinning to her mother after Pope Leo XIV waved at her on his way past on a famed Paris avenue.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
A Stack Infrastructure project for a fourth OpenAI facility in Dona Ana County, N.M., raised about $18 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Niwunhellage Dona Nirodha Kalapni Niwunhella, known as Nirodha, 32, died at the scene at South Morgan Place in Riverside, Cardiff, on 21 August 2025.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
The fossils were uncovered during a May 2025 excavation in the municipality of Dona Francisca in southern Brazil.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2025
“You tell him 1 called, tell him I’ll check in at Dona Luz before I head south, he can leave a message for me there if he gets home. Otherwise we’ll talk in the morning.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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