Ona
Americannoun
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Onas,
plural
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Ona
plural
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a member of a people of Tierra del Fuego.
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a female given name.
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There was investment in the transfer window with the likes of England international Georgia Stanway and Spain full-back Ona Batlle arriving, as well as the talented, young Germany forward Lisa Baum.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
And, for me, a loaf of chocolate zucchini bread from a little Amish market and greenhouse somewhere outside Ona, West Virginia.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Spain defender Ona Batlle is close to agreeing a move to Arsenal as a free agent in the summer.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
"They need new taxpayers, they need new soldiers," Maria Mueller, of the Russian feminist association Ona, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023
In the eyes of George and Martha Washington, that was the only reason why Ona Judge would leave their “family.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Raf Vallone, as her ship-tycoon husband, is healthily Hellenic in a role with obvious overtones of Onas sisism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To find primitive virtues, the ethnologist must go all the way to the Onas, who lived in cold Tierra del Fuego.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We tried for three days to sneak Onas baby out, but the guard stood near whenever the doors were open.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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In this condition the sheep could still feed and the Onas could feed on them at will.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
So pursuit of the Onas is always ineffectual.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by John R. Spears
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