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dona

dona is the alternative form of donah.

Meaning of donah

Noun

donah (plural donahs)

  1. (Australia, historical, slang) A larrikin's girlfriend.
    • Larrikins and their donahs. It's the donahs that worry me most, screeching like cockatoos in their flashy dresses and feathered hats. They're rough girls — you have to be, if you're a larrikin's girlfriend — […]2018, Juliet Blair, Lucy's Dawn, page 47

Proper noun capitalized: Dona

Dona (plural Donas)

  1. A surname.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Sedona.

Forms of dona

Noun
pluraldonas
Proper noun
pluralDonas

Phrases with dona

Questions about dona

What does dona mean?
Dona means a surname.
What is dona the alternative form of?
Dona is the alternative form of donah.
What part of speech is dona?
Dona is a proper noun.

Words near dona in the dictionary

  1. don'tcha
  2. don'ts
  3. Don-Quixotic
  4. Don-roe Doctrine
  5. Don.
  6. dona
  7. Dona Ramona T. Alano
  8. Donabate
  9. donabe
  10. donabes
  11. donable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dona (page history and authors); Dona (page history and authors); donah (page history and authors). 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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