Nana Definition

nănə, nänə
noun
A grandmother.
American Heritage

Grandmother.

Webster's New World
A nanny.
American Heritage
Nana is an endearing term for grandmother.
Your father's mother is an example of your nana.
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pronoun

An affectionate term for one's grandmother.

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Other Word Forms of Nana

Noun

Singular:
nana
Plural:
nanas

Origin of Nana

  • Of baby-talk origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nana Sentence Examples

  • The name of Cawnpore is indelibly connected with the blackest episode in the history of the Indian Mutiny - the massacre here in July 1857 of hundreds of women and children by the Nana Sahib.

  • The insight knowledge, vipassana nana, arising at that moment is not taken for self either.

  • His adopted son, Nana Sahib, inherited his accumulated savings, but could obtain no further recognition.

  • Before the rise of the First Dynasty of Babylon, however, Elam had recovered its independence, and in 2280 B.C. the Elamite king Kutur-Nakhkhunte made a raid in Babylonia and carried away from Erech the image of the goddess Nana.

  • His adopted son grew up to be the Nana Sahib, of infamous memory, who took a leading part in the Mutiny.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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Words Starting With N and Ending With A

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