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ana

Syllables: a·na/ˈɑː.nə/US/ˈæ.nə/

ana noun: a collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table. Also the alternative form of anna.

Noun (1)

ana (plural anas)

  1. A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
    • The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards1803, publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Page 8
    • Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas, which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum, a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.2008, Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson

Adverb (1)

ana (not comparable)

  1. Of each; an equal quantity.
    • wine and honey, ana / ij
    • Take Sugrede Coriandre ſeedes 3 qv. of an ovvnce, deſcidede liqveriſh ℥ [?]. Calmus, redd Roſes, ana a q. of an ounce, Cĩnamone 3 qv. of an ounce, Ginger, cloves, Mace, Nuttmegges, ana a q. of an oũce, all vvhich being contunded together, & as much Suger mixede thervvith, as ther is of the other...1599, Oswaldus Gabelhouer, translated by Charles Battus and A. M., The Boock of Physicke: […], Dort: […] Isaack Caen, page 116, column 2
    Synonyms:
    aa

Noun (2)

ana (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) Anorexia.

Adverb (2)

ana (comparative more ana, superlative most ana)

  1. In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
    • Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.1985, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes, page 43
    • Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.2005, Animation journal, volumes 13-15
    Antonyms:
    kata

Proper noun (1) capitalized: ANA

ANA

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Anaheim.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Afghan National Army.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of All Nippon Airways.
  4. (Australia, abbreviation, historical, initialism) Initialism of Australian National Airways.
  5. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of American Nurses Association.

Noun (3) capitalized: ANA

ANA (plural ANAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of anti-nuclear antibody.
    Synonyms:
    ANF
  2. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of animal nursing assistant.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ana

Ana

  1. A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
  2. A river in Oregon, United States.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Ana

Ana

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.
    • Ana Island and a strip of flat land below the steep banks bordering the Euphrates, some 350 km (220 miles) due east of Palmyra, were occupied for millennia by the buildings of a succession of important settlements...2012, David Kennedy et al., Rome's Desert Frontier from the Air, page 114

Proper noun (4) capitalized: Ana

Ana

  1. An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
  2. The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.
    Synonyms:
    Ifè

Noun (4) capitalized: Ana

Ana pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A member of the Ana people.

Also used as

ana is also the alternative form of anna.

ana meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam

ana in Hindi

एना

ana in Marathi

अना

ana in Telugu

అనా, ఆనా

ana in Malayalam

അന
More languagesFewer languages
ana in Kannada
ಅನಾ, ಆನಾ
ana in Punjabi
ਐਨਾ, ਆਨਾ, ਅਨਾ
ana in Odia
ଆନା
ana in Nepali
एना

Synonyms of ana

Antonyms

Forms of ana

Noun
pluralanas
pluralANAs
Adverb
comparativemore ana
superlativemost ana

Plural of ana: anas

Origin of ana

Formed from the Latin suffix -ana; compare ism (from -ism), itis (from -itis), phobia (from -phobia).

From Ancient Greek ἀνά (aná, “of each”).

Clipping of anorexia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Ana as form of personification and coded language. Compare mia.

Words formed from ana

Phrases with ana

Words that rhyme with ana

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Questions about ana

What does ana mean?
Ana means a collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table.
What is ana in Hindi?
Ana in Hindi is एना. See Ana meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is ana?
Ana can be a noun, an adverb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ana?
Ana is pronounced /ˈæ.nə/ (US).
What is the plural of ana?
The plural of ana is anas.

Words near ana in the dictionary

  1. An-lu
  2. An-peng
  3. An-shan
  4. An-t'u
  5. An-Yang
  6. ana
  7. Ana Cuenca
  8. ana-
  9. Anaang
  10. anabaena
  11. anabaenas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ana (page history and authors); ANA (page history and authors); Ana (page history and authors); ana (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ana (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ana (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ana (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ana (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ana (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ana (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ana (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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