Origin of Donna
Italian from Classical Latin domina, feminine of dominus: see dominate a feminine nameDonna
Don·na- Lady; Madam: an Italian title of respect, used with the given name
- [d-] an Italian lady
Origin of Donna
It: see DonnaWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Donna
noun
Used as a courtesy title before the name of a woman in an Italian-speaking area.
Origin of Donna
Italian from Latin domina ; see Doña .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
From Italian donna.
Proper noun
- A female given name.
Usage notes
- Popular in the U.S.A. in the 1940s and the 1950s, and in the U.K. in the 1970s and the 1980s.
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