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Dawna

Dawna proper noun: a female given name from English.

Proper noun

Dawna

  1. A female given name from English.
    • The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn.2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 292

Origin of Dawna

From Dawn + -a in the 20th century.

Questions about Dawna

What does Dawna mean?
Dawna means a female given name from English.
What part of speech is Dawna?
Dawna is a proper noun.

Words near Dawna in the dictionary

  1. dawn raid
  2. dawn raids
  3. dawn redwood
  4. dawn redwoods
  5. dawn upon
  6. Dawna
  7. Dawnay
  8. dawnce
  9. dawncer
  10. dawncers
  11. dawnder

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