joan

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Even a lottery is not a lottery by that account; statistics professor Joan R.

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A female given name from French, a feminine form of John.

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noun

A female given name from French, a feminine form of John.

verb

Alternative form of jone. [(intransitive, transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, often followed by on) To good-naturedly make fun of (someone); to roast.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for joan.

noun

A female given name from French, a feminine form of John.

verb

Alternative form of jone. [(intransitive, transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, often followed by on) To good-naturedly make fun of (someone); to roast.]

Example sentences

Even a lottery is not a lottery by that account; statistics professor Joan R.

The illustrations were done by Joan Hall, and the introduction to the book was written by William Chamberlain.

The character of Joan guesses at one point that Turing is trying to build a Universal Turing Machine.

So it's clear that Joan Hall owns the copyright to the illustrations, and William Chamberlain the introduction.

Books like Hammerfall and Snow Queen by Joan Vinge are fantasy with scifi elements that are hard to dismiss.

A very close relative died after a procedure similar to what had happened to Joan Rivers.

Several times she likened herself to Joan of Arc for making the Twitter post.

Why would you think Joan Clarke was any posher than Keira Knightly?

The fact that they weren't very useful kind of ruins it though; hence they invented a use by recruiting the Joan character that way.

The road to freedom is mortared with the blood of freedom fighters, from Joan D'Arc to John Brown to Bobby Seale to Martin Luther King Jr.

I've always been a fan of the works of Joan Miro and El Greco.

> Joan Clarke wasn't recruited through a crossword competition, she was already known to be a bright mathematician.

Quote examples

I like this quote (from Joan Didion): "I don't know what I think until I try to write it down."

"And Joan is survived by two loyal sons as well as two children who formerly had leukemia."

If you read the Harper's article [0] about the Joan Ginther, the "luckiest woman on earth" mentioned in this thread's top comment, she seems to have gamed the system basically by having an inside man or two (while also being good at math).

In fact, a Psychologist by the name of Joan Junqueira once told me "In more traditional societies, the Schizoaffectives are the Shamans." Among the reasons I work as a coder, is that I can write good software despite being delusional.

Proper noun examples

Joan, Martin's mom, who came home to care for Martin, helped him with his physical therapy and most important, purchase this kind of joystick for the computer.