DONNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does donna mean? 

• DONNA (noun)
  The noun DONNA has 1 sense:

1. an Italian woman of rank

  Familiarity information: DONNA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DONNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Italian woman of rank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("donna" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Domain category:

Italian (the Romance language spoken in Italy)

 Context examples 

Donna Bianca, if you command it, I will be.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Let me see!” said Holmes. Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year 1858. Contralto—hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera of Warsaw—yes! Retired from operatic stage—ha! Living in London—quite so!

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)