Nona

Definitions

proper noun Roman mythology The youngest of the three Fates, or Parcae, daughter of Jupiter and Justitia; the spinner of the thread of life

From the Latin meaning "the ninth". She was prayed to in the ninth month of pregnancy.

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I've read the web letters and I take part of the "blame" for exclusions in Nona's piece.

About that Nation article on moms, feminism & blogging.... 2009
I've read the web letters and I take part of the "blame" for exclusions in Nona's piece.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009
That was the word Nona had said she was going to have for her own.

If Winter Comes 1925
Nona or whatever the Italian word is for grandmother might work for some, but I’m half Irish.

What do You Call Grandmother to Her Face? | Thingamababy 2005
Then Howel laughed as if he had a jest that would not keep, and he cried: "Why, Nona, that is a mighty pretty speech, but surely one asks a sick man of his health first."

A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884
Of course, it's easier to realize that "Wicked Teacher" isn't my real name than to realize that "Nona" is a pseudonym.

At SIGCSE Wicked Teacher of the West 2009
Of course, it's easier to realize that "Wicked Teacher" isn't my real name than to realize that "Nona" is a pseudonym.

Archive 2009-03-01 Wicked Teacher of the West 2009
I looked away, busying myself with peeling the label off Nona’s beer bottle.

The God of Animals Aryn Kyle 2007
I looked away, busying myself with peeling the label off Nona’s beer bottle.

The God of Animals Aryn Kyle 2007
She was the loving "Nona" to her three grandchildren: Meredith, Lauren and Matthew.

KeysNews.com - 2009