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  Mona

  noun

  a female given name.
• mona
  mona

  noun

  a W African guenon monkey, Cercopithecus mona, with dark fur on the back and white or yellow underparts

Mona

American  

[moh-nuh] / ˈmoʊ nə /

noun

1. a female given name.

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mona British  

/ ˈməʊnə /

noun

1. a W African guenon monkey, Cercopithecus mona, with dark fur on the back and white or yellow underparts

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Etymology

Origin of mona

C18: from Spanish or Portuguese: monkey

Example Sentences

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Mona mona

Among novelist Mona Awad’s prized possessions is a handmade rabbit brooch with delicate hanging daggers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

In one of France's most high-profile art thefts, in 1911, Leonardo de Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

But as political analyst Mona Charen noted, “his children are the product of a marriage between himself and the daughter of recent immigrants. Her ancestors are buried in India. Is that their ‘homeland’?

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Mona, a housewife with two kids, says her husband has been out of work since the beginning of the war.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Nearly twenty years after the recovery of the Mona Lisa, a very different account was published in the Saturday Evening Post, the most popular magazine in the United States.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

He dismissively compares the building to a mona de Pascua, an Easter cake decorated with colorful sprinkles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Having disposed of the mona, our cavalcade started, and we rode down to the Sheshaoua River, still in heavy flood, but fordable since the fine night.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory

And "Tag" never failed with its "Ana mana mona mike."

From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Eeny, meeny, mona, my Barcelona bona sky, Care well, Broken well, We wo wack.

From The Cat in Grandfather's House by Carl Henry Grabo

Following hard on the mona came a message from the khaylifa asking for medicine.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory