Jo·anne

[joh-an]
noun
a female given name.
Also, Jo·ann, Jo Ann, Jo·an·na [joh-an-uh] .
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Joanna definition


whom Jehovah has graciously given. (1.) The grandson of Zerubbabel, in the lineage of Christ (Luke 3:27); the same as Hananiah (1 Chr. 3:19). (2.) The wife of Chuza, the steward of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee (Luke 8:3). She was one of the women who ministered to our Lord, and to whom he appeared after his resurrection (Luke 8:3; 24:10).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Joanna is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Joanna comes from a world that is beginning its feminist movement.
Joanna recognizes that her own style of narration reflects a feminine quality.
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