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  • proper noun A female given name, a feminine form of Alan.

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Examples

  • "Alana is an All-American, and it showed tonight," Texas Tech freshman point guard Erin Grant said.

    USATODAY.com - Beard's 28 send Duke to Atlanta for Final Four 2003

  • And for a time in the early 1990s, according to a source who spoke to Vanity Fair, she was a $1,000-an-hour call girl, working under the name "Alana" for Beverly Hills madam Jody "Babydol" Gibson.

    Legend with a Bullet Anson, Robert Sam 2003

  • This summer, I’ve randomly getting closer to people, namely Alana, Alison, and Chad.

    Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? grassbrace 2003

  • I'll call her "Alana," since that's her name (but note to Face-tards: Don't try to friend her to heckle me, she will not receive you).

    Gawker 2009

  • I'll call her "Alana," since that's her name (but note to Face-tards: Don't try to friend her to heckle me, she will not receive you).

    Gawker 2009

  • Gibson, in her memoir "Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam," wrote that she sent a tall, blond call girl named "Alana" to the Bel-Air Hotel to service a

    unknown title 2009

  • A call girl named "Alana" and "Lana Cl" is listed in Gibson's "trick book" -- a collection of handwritten phone books and payment logs used as evidence in her 2000 trial and later unsealed by the

    unknown title 2009

  • Gold medalist Alana Nichols and silver medalist Stephani Victor celebrate during the medal ceremony after the women's sitting giant slalom.

    Paralympic multimedalist Nichols takes weekly honor 2010

  • Meet Alana Nichols, who led a powerhouse Alpine skiing sitting squad with two gold (downhill, giant slalom), a silver (super-G) and a bronze (super-combined) in Whistler.

    Paralympic multimedalist Nichols takes weekly honor 2010

  • She tried -- usually without success -- to remember the names of the rock bands that Angela and Alana listened to.

    Laura Stepp: These Grandmas Can't Butt Out Laura Stepp 2011

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