Joan

[ john ]

noun

1. Fair Maid of Kent, 1328–85, wife of Edward, the Black Prince, and mother of Richard II.
2. a fictitious female pope about a.d. 855–858.
3. a female given name.

Joan

/ dʒəʊn /

noun

1. Joan13281385FEnglishPOLITICS: royal family member known as the Fair Maid of Kent. 1328–85, wife of Edward the Black Prince; mother of Richard II
2. Joan, Pope13th century13th centuryFRELIGION: pope Pope legendary female pope, first mentioned in the 13th century: said to have been elected while disguised as a man and to have died in childbirth

Example Sentences

Joan enters several bad and even dangerous relationships with men.

From Time

In Animal, Joan spends the entire book connecting her personal sexual trauma to memories of her parents’ marriage.

From Time

Photographers took close-up pictures of Lewis’ lifeless body before it was transported to the morgue, where he was identified by his only child, his adult daughter, Joan.

From ProPublica

So Joan, in your piece you talk about Tim Kendall, who is the former head of monetization for Facebook.

From MIT Technology Review

Joan Ruth, born in 1933, dropped her first name in elementary school in Brooklyn, where too many other kids responded to “Joan,” opting instead for “Ruth.”

From Ozy

Estee Lauder has not crumbled to dust because the perfect brown face of Joan Smalls represents it.

From The Daily Beast

Someone recently sent me an old Joan Didion essay on self-respect that appeared in Vogue.

From The Daily Beast

We see photographs of him with his arm around Joan Jett, two punks mugging for the camera.

From The Daily Beast

One understood why Joan Fontaine stayed with him no matter what.

From The Daily Beast

I first read Joan Didion in my early 20s, and that totally changed everything.

From The Daily Beast

Joan Boughton, a widow, was burned for heresy; said to be the first female martyr of England.

From Project Gutenberg

Then he clapped his fiddle under his chin and without more ado struck up "Bobbing Joan."

From Project Gutenberg

This was when Don Joan Ronquillo, with that great fleet, went out and fought the one that the enemy maintained along these coasts.

From Project Gutenberg

Joan Henry Ursinus died; a Lutheran divine, eminent for his learning in sacred and profane history.

From Project Gutenberg

I confess I speedily lost consciousness of the human presences beside me, and I have little doubt Joan did too.

From Project Gutenberg