Nanna
1 Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The writer’s grandmother, whom she called Nanna, had grown up nearby on a hardscrabble farm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Nanna even ventured into the crowd after Hey Mercedes opened the Brooklyn show, singing along to “A Praise Chorus,” the band’s crunchy guitar-filled love letter to rock music, among others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Swede edged out compatriot Madelene Sagstrom and Britain's Georgia Hall, with Dane Nanna Koerstz Madsen also posting a top-five finish on the Angus links.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
Valerie Hopkins and Nanna Heitmann reported from Shebekino and Grayvoron, Russian towns just a few miles from the border with Ukraine.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2024
And although they sometimes found themselves wishing for the quieter, more ordinary days when Katie Nanna ruled the household, everybody, on the whole, was glad of Mary Poppins’s arrival.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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