English

Alternative forms

• Anne

Proper noun

Ann

1. A female given name.
   • 1903 George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman: Act I:

     RAMSDEN. When you say Ann, you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield.

     TANNER. I mean our Ann, your Ann, Tavy's Ann, and now, Heaven help me, my Ann.

   • 1969 Constance Urdang, Natural History, Harper&Row 1969, page 61:

     Given a perfectly good American name like Ann, she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.

   • 2005 Mary Monroe, In Sheep's Clothing, Dafina Books, ISBN 0758203446, page 129:

     "Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it."

     "Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?"

Usage notes

• Popular since the fourteenth century due to the medieval cult of Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary.
• A very common middle name since the 20th century.

Related terms

• Anita, Anke, Anna, Anne, Anneke, Annette, Annie, Annika, Anya, Nan, Nance, Nancy, Nannie, Nanny

Translations

Noun

Ann ‎(plural Anns)

1. Abbreviation of anniversary.

Adjective

Ann ‎(not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of annual.

Anagrams

• nan, Nan, NaN, NAN

Danish

Etymology

From English Ann. Variant of Danish Anna and Anne.

Proper noun

Ann

1. A female given name.

Estonian

Proper noun

Ann

1. A female given name, an old Estonian short form of Anna.

Manx

Proper noun

Ann f

1. A female given name, Manx equivalent to Anna.

See also

• Onnee

Norwegian

Etymology

From English Ann. Variant of the Norwegian Anna and Anne.

Proper noun

Ann

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Common first part of hyphenated names such as Ann-Kristin.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 12 786 females with the given name Ann living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.

Swedish

Etymology

From English Ann, first recorded as a Swedish given name in 1860.

Proper noun

Ann

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Common first first part of hyphenated names such as Ann-Marie or Ann-Kristin.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 34 106 females with the given name Ann living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

English

Alternative forms

• annat

Noun

ann ‎(plural anns)

1. (law, Scotland) A half year's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of annou from French à nous.

Adverb

ann

1. Contraction of annou; let's

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [aun̪ˠ]
• (Galway) IPA^(key): [ɑːn̪ˠ]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): [an̪ˠ]

Adverb

ann

1. there

Derived terms

• bí ann

Pronoun

ann ‎(emphatic annsan)

1. third-person singular masculine of i: in him, in it m

Noun

ann

1. reduced form of inmhe, used only in the phrase in ann ("able")

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin annus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanː/

Noun

ann m ‎(usually invariable, plural agn)

1. year

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aun̴̪/

Adverb

ann

1. there

   A bheil thu ann?‎ ― Are you there?

2. in existence, alive

Derived terms

• ann am
• ann an

Pronoun

ann

1. in him

   Chan eil coire sam bith ann.‎ ― There is no fault in him at all.

   Chan eil ann ach crochair.‎ ― He is but a rascal.

2. in it

Derived terms

• annsan

See also

• innte
• prepositional pronoun

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

Vilamovian

Noun

ann

1. plural of ān