JOANNA

Etymology

Proper noun

Joanna

A female given name from Hebrew.

(biblical character) One of the women following Jesus.

Obsolete spelling of Johanna.

Noun

joanna (plural joannas)

(Cockney rhyming slang, often "old joanna") A piano.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

15 April 2025

DOOMED

(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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