Winona

[wi-noh-nuh]

noun

1. a city in SE Minnesota, on the Mississippi.

2. a female given name.

Example Sentences

Allaire’s relationship with technology began while he was growing up in Winona, Minn. In the 1980s, he and his brother, Joseph “J.J.”

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Towards the end of “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Winona Ryder as Mina leans over the body of her slain lover, Dracula, and even in knowing that she made the right decision in killing him to save her mortal soul, she misses the love she knew with him.

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The new series, which also stars Winona Ryder, mostly takes place 18 months after the end of season four, although the forthcoming launch episode will take viewers back to six days before Will Byers, one of the children in Hawkins, first went missing.

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“Time moved really slowly in that place. But just the creativity that I was around, from both the people who worked there and shopped there, was great exposure,” says Kurata, who recalls seeing faces like Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp browsing the selection and Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington trying on jeans.

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Serri Ferrante and Winona Parks, longtime friends who both work in television, said they suspect the lack of critical acclaim the series got could be attributed to the small size of the WB network, where it aired, and the likelihood that its budget for awards campaigns was small.

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