ann
UK/æn/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
Scotland/an/
ann noun: an annate.
Noun (1)
ann (plural anns)
- An annate.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ann
Ann
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- ramsden. When you say Ann, you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield. / tanner. I mean our Ann, your Ann, Tavy's Ann, and now, Heaven help me, my Ann!1901–1903, [George] Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman. […], Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable & Co., published 1903, →OCLC, Act I, page 8
- Given a perfectly good American name like Ann, she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.1969, Constance Urdang, Natural History, Harper&Row, page 61
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ann
Ann (plural Anns)
- A surname from Welsh.
Noun (2) capitalized: Ann
Ann (plural Anns)
- Abbreviation of anniversary.
Adjective capitalized: Ann
Ann (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of annual.
Noun (3) capitalized: ANN
ANN (plural ANNs)
- Initialism of artificial neural network.
- Antonyms:
- BNN
- Initialism of approximate nearest neighbor.
- Abbreviation of announcement, in e-mail or newsgroup subject lines.
ann meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
ann in Hindi
- एन्न
ann in Tamil
- ஆன்
ann in Bengali
- অ্যান
ann in Malayalam
- ആൻ, ആന്
More languagesFewer languages
- ann in Odia
- ଆନ୍
- ann in Nepali
- एन्न
Examples of ann in a sentence
- Ann has norovirus, she's spent the entire day squittering on the toilet.
- Ann is always getting down on these students.
- Ann explained to the teacher what had happened and the nuns went crook at me too.
Antonyms of ann
Forms of ann
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | anns |
| alternative form | annat |
| plural | Anns |
| plural | ANNs |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Anne |
| plural | Anns |
Origin of ann
From Latin annata (“income of a year; income of half a year”), from annus (“year”): compare French annate (“annats”), Spanish anata (“annats”).
From Late Latin Anna chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna, “Anna”) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). Occasionally reborrowed from languages who adopted the name from English. Very infrequently from Estonian abbreviation of Anna instead. Doublet of Ana, Anna, Anne, and Hannah.
Habitational surname from Abbotts Ann in Hampshire, named for the stream that runs through it, which is most probably named with an ancient Welsh word meaning "ash tree stream". Compare Welsh onn (“ash tree”).
Words formed from ann
Phrases with ann
Words that rhyme with ann
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- clan
- ban
- Cheyenne
- Longshan
- Nanshan
- plan
- an
- gan
- Gushan
- han
- Hongshan
- mann
- nan
- stan
- tan
- unman
- Baoshan
- Dongshan
- flan
- Heshan
- Jinshan
- langshan
- marzipan
- panne
- Qishan
- ran
- rattan
- bantustan
- began
- chan
- Fengshan
- Fran
- Guanshan
- Hengshan
- Huangshan
- Huishan
- japan
- Lausanne
- Lianshan
- Lushan
- Marianne
- Pingshan
- scran
- sedan
- shan
- than
- trapan
- trepan
Questions about ann
- What does ann mean?
- Ann means an annate.
- What is ann in Hindi?
- Ann in Hindi is एन्न. See Ann meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ann?
- Ann can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce ann?
- Ann is pronounced /æn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ann?
- The plural of ann is anns.
Words near ann in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ann (page history and authors); Ann (page history and authors); ANN (page history and authors); ann (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ann (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ann (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ann (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ann (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ann (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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