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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Anglesey, Anglesey Island, Anglesea, Anglesea Island, Monanoun

    an island to the northwest of Wales

Wiktionary

  1. Monanoun

    A female given name from Irish.

  2. Monanoun

    The third-largest island of the Puerto Rico archipelago.

  3. Monanoun

    A city in Utah.

  4. Etymology: Anglicized form Gaelic Muadhnait, from muadh "noble". In northern Europe, where the name is much more popular, Mona is interpreted as a diminutive of Monika or, rarely, of Ramona, and sometimes associated with the title of da Vinci's painting Mona (=madonna) Lisa.

Wikipedia

  1. Mona

    Mona (I Need You Baby) is a song written by Ellas McDaniel (Bo Diddley) and was the B-side to his 1957 single "Hey! Bo Diddley". According to Diddley's obituary in The New York Times, "Mona" was a song of praise he wrote for a 45-year-old exotic dancer who worked at the Flame Show Bar in Detroit. The song also became the template for Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away".

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  1. mona

    "Mona" does not have a standard definition as it varies in meaning across different languages and cultures. In Spanish, "mona" translates to "cute" or "pretty". It's also a feminine given name used in various cultures, sometimes as short for Monica. In some regions, it was traditionally used to refer to a monkey or doll. Thus, the definition heavily relies on the context and location in which the term is being used.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Monanoun

    a small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches

  2. Etymology: [CF. Sp. & Pg. mona, fem. of mono a monkey, ape.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. mona

    (now Anglesey). An island off the coast of the Ordovices, in Britain; it was invaded by Suetonius Paulinus, 61, and was conquered by Agricola, 78.

Editors Contribution

  1. MONA

    Arabic female name


    Submitted by rinat on July 30, 2019  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MONA

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mona is ranked #33856 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mona surname appeared 672 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mona.

    65% or 437 total occurrences were White.
    19% or 128 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    10.2% or 69 total occurrences were Asian.
    3.7% or 25 total occurrences were Black.

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Anagrams for mona »

  1. moan

  2. noma

  3. Oman

  4. mano

  5. noam

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mona in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mona in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of mona in a Sentence

  1. Historical Association:

    Jackie Kennedy was helpful in getting the Temple of Dendur given as a gift( to the Met) from Egypt after the United States helped save it from being flooded by the Aswan Dam, and Jackie Kennedy also facilitated having( Leonardo da Vinci's) the Mona Lisa there from Paris.

  2. Universal Studios/Getty Images:

    I simply look out my windows … [ and admire ] the beauty of the Shambala Preserve, there is nothing quite as beautiful as the view from my dining room window of Mona -- a magnificent Bengal tiger -- walking across her compound.

  3. A. Whitney Griswold:

    Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.

  4. Silvano Vinceti:

    We have used all the paintings in which Leonardo used Salai as a model and compared them to the 'Mona Lisa' and certain details correspond perfectly; so he used two models and added creative details which came from his own imagination, i believe that this goes with a long-time fascination of Leonardo's, that is, the subject of androgyny. In other words, for Leonardo, the perfect person was a combination of a man and a woman.

  5. Seemal Desai:

    Darker skin tones can certainly be more challenging, and I do think Mona Gohara have to see lots of patients with different skin tones to pick up on clues, there are dermatologists out there who specialize in skin of color.

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