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Shar⋅on

[shuh-rohn for 1; shar-uhn for 2–5]
–noun
1. Ariel, born 1928, Israeli military and political leader; prime minister 2001–06.
2. a fertile coastal plain in ancient Palestine: now a coastal region N of Tel Aviv in Israel.
3. a city in W Pennsylvania. 19,057.
4. a town in E Massachusetts. 13,601.
5. Also, Sharen. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “a plain or flat area.”
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Sharon 
fem. proper name; name of the fertile coastal plain between Jaffa and Mount Carmel, from Heb., aphetic for yesharon, prop. "the Plain," from stem of yashar "was straight, was even" (cf. Heb. mishor "level land, plain").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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