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Jon

Jon proper noun: a male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.

Proper noun (1)

Jon

  1. A male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.
    • In that Summer of 1909 the simple souls who even then desired to simplify the English tongue, had, of course, no cognizance of little Jon, or they would have claimed him for a disciple. But one can be too simple in this life, for his real name was Jolyon, and his living father and dead half-brother...1920 October, John Galsworthy, Awakening, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 6
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.
    • "I suppose I ought to call you Uncle Jack now." "Please don't. My name is Jonathan, and I've never had a nickname. Doesn't go with my character. So, Uncle Jon - if you must."1994, Robertson Davies, The Cunning Man, Viking, published 1995, →ISBN, page 16
    • Inundated with anti-Semitic tweets and frustrated by Twitter's initial response, New York Times editor Jon Weisman is packing up and leaving the social media platform.2016 June 8, Tom Kludt, “New York Times editor quits Twitter over anti-Semitic tweets”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2025

Proper noun (2)

Jon (plural Jons)

  1. A surname.

Forms of Jon

pluralJons

Phrases with Jon

Questions about Jon

What does Jon mean?
Jon means a male given name from Hebrew, variant of John.
What part of speech is Jon?
Jon is a proper noun.

Words near Jon in the dictionary

  1. Jomon
  2. Jomons
  3. jomos
  4. jompon
  5. jompons
  6. Jon
  7. Jon.
  8. Jonael
  9. Jonaerys
  10. Jonagold
  11. Jonagolds

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