Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A grandmother.
- n. A nanny.
Wiktionary
- n. informal Short form of banana, the fruit.
- n. slang A fool.
- n. informal A pet name for one's grandmother.
- n. A nanny.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Grandmother.
Etymologies
- Variant spelling of nanna. (Wiktionary)
- Of baby-talk origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Andrew Carle, a former rehab hospital director who now directs a senior housing program at George Mason University, coined the term "nana technologies" for such things.”
“MIss nana is the hottest ive heard ... if u agree of disagree visit missnana sit .. www. missnana.com”
Gonna Start My Dynasty Like Dame and Hova (Music (For Robots))
“(My own mother, for example - "nana" - comes to look after my kids twice a week: She would easily win a GAS case, I bet, if I divorced my wife and she tried maliciously to block nana's access.)”
“I was tense on Friday night because my nana is returning from her month of respite this week, and I am dreading it, and when I tried talking to Llew about it, he wasn’t interested, didn’t want to know, and asked me what the hell my problem was because he couldn’t see the big deal.”
“I aku keia, "He kamaaina no ko makou mea nana i alakai mai, oia hoi kela wahi kanaka nana i olelo mai ia oe no Kauakahialii.”
“A lohe o Ihuanu i keia olelo a Aiwohikupua, i mai la oia, "He oi oe o ke kanaka nana i olelo hookano iho nei wau imua o keia aha a pau, owau no ka oi mamua o na kanaka a pau, a ke olelo mai nei hoi oe i ekolu aku ma keia aoao, a heaha la oe i mua o'u?”
“Ia manawa, olelo aku kahi kanaka nana i ike mua ia”
“His nana was a true believer in taking a dogs food away if it growled, which is wrong, it made her anxious and protective.”
“I prank called my nana today ... right in front of her!”
“These are told as legend but, of course, as a reader we surmise the truth; things like how "nana" must be nanotech that provide longevity to the old-fathers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nana’.
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EN - baby talk
whoopsie, kitty, baba, beddy-bye, binkie, blankie, boo-boo, botty, bow-wow, brekkie, brekfee, bubby and 84 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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words my 19-month-old daughter says
We'll skip people's names.
basketball, light, railroad, mommy, daddy, up, hand, gate, walk, kitty, doggie, cat and 145 more...
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precious
coin, waiflike, zoo, captain, difference, diet, automagical, olive, noanoa, dusk, cookie, monday and 221 more...
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Neverland
tinker bell, peter pan, captain james hook, wendy, mermaid, fairies, pirates, nibs, slightly, tootles, curly, john and 20 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (N)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
n'er do well, nana, narwhal, nasturtium, nativity, naught, nebulous, nectar, nest, nexus, nightfall, nightgown and 34 more...
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What I thought wordies were before I ...
The inability to format text limits the possibilities here.
just144ice, eilnpu, vad ers, lick ety, calm the storm, oholene, 10sne1, mce mce mce, 9all5, dnah, too late too late, vit min and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for nana.
treeseed pet name for grandmother
The name of the Newfoundland dog in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan Feb 17, 2008
sionnach tuna Dec 29, 2007