mañana
Syllables: ma·ña·na/məˈnjɑː.nə/
mañana adverb: tomorrow.
Adverb
mañana (not comparable)
- Tomorrow.
- At some unspecified time in the future.
- The plumber said he would come tomorrow. But I think he will probably be here mañana.
- The answer was always a harassed smile and a promise that there should be machine-gun instruction mañana. Needless to say mañana never came.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 9
Noun
mañana (plural mañanas)
- Some unspecified time in the future.
Examples of mañana in a sentence
- I pictured him in New York, putting off everything till mañana.1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, London: Penguin Books, published 1976, →ISBN, part 1, page 99:
- Mañana behavior and overloquacity are frowned upon.2003, Richard D[onald] Lewis, “The Categorization of Cultures”, in The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21ˢᵗ Century, Yarmouth...
- “[With]^([sic]) the Greek government it is every time ‘mañana’,” said Lithuania’s president, Dalia Grybauskaitė, one of the Greek government’s harshest critics.2015 July 7, Ian Traynor, Larry Elliott, quoting Dalia Grybauskaitė, “Greece given days to agree bailout deal or face banking collapse and...
Forms of mañana
| Adverb | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | manana |
| Noun | |
| plural | mañanas |
Origin of mañana
Borrowed from Spanish mañana.
Words formed from mañana
Words that rhyme with mañana
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Guadiana
- ikebana
- kana
- mana
- nana
- nirvana
- poinciana
- Rilkeana
- yana
- Alaskana
- Arthuriana
- Australiana
- Bondiana
- breweriana
- bwana
- Canadiana
- Chauceriana
- comicana
- cricketana
- dhyana
- Disneyana
- Edwardiana
- fata morgana
- fistiana
- Forteana
- ghana
- golfiana
- Guyana
- hentaigana
- Johnsoniana
- Kellyana
- Kiwiana
- liana
- librariana
- man'yōgana
- militariana
- ohana
- omniana
- parmigiana
- Pompeiana
- prana
- Qiana
- railroadiana
- railwayana
- Rosh Hashanah
- Setswana
- Shakespeareana
- Shaviana
Questions about mañana
- What does mañana mean?
- Mañana means tomorrow.
- How do you use mañana in a sentence?
- I pictured him in New York, putting off everything till mañana.
- What part of speech is mañana?
- Mañana can be an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce mañana?
- Mañana is pronounced /məˈnjɑː.nə/.
Words near mañana in the dictionary
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