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Ioane

Ioane is the obsolete form of Joan.

Meaning of Joan

Proper noun

Joan (plural Joans)

  1. A female given name from French, a feminine form of John.
    • Maybe my mother didn't name me after Joan Crawford after all, I thought; she just told me that to cover up. She named me after Joan of Arc, didn't she know what happened to women like that?1979, Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle, page 336
  2. A male given name from Catalan, a form of John.

See all 4 meanings of joan

Questions about Ioane

What is Ioane the obsolete form of?
Ioane is the obsolete form of Joan.

Words near Ioane in the dictionary

  1. inégalitarian
  2. io
  3. io moth
  4. io moths
  5. io-
  6. Ioane
  7. Ioannidis
  8. Ioannidises
  9. Ioannina
  10. Ioannis
  11. Ioannou

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ioane (page history and authors); Joan (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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