Donna may refer to the short form of the honorific ''nobildonna'', the female form of
Don (honorific)
Don (; ; pt, Dom, links=no ; all from Latin ', roughly 'Lord'), abbreviated as D., is an honorific prefix primarily used in Spain and Hispanic America, and with different connotations also in Italy, Portugal and its former colonies, and Croati ...
in Italian.
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Donna (given name)
Donna is an English-language feminine first name meaning "woman" in modern Italian, and "lady" or "mistress" in classical italian.https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/donna/ See 2b for the comparison with "Don" The original meaning is closer to "lad ...
; includes name origin and list of people and characters with the name
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Roberto Di Donna
Roberto Di Donna (born 8 September 1968 in Rome) is an Italian sport shooter and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in 10 metre air pistol at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
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(born 1968), Italian sports shooter
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Fernand Donna
Fernand Donna (30 January 1922 – 7 May 1988) was a French sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s. He was eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
London is the capital and List of ...
(1922–1988), French sprint canoeist
Places
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Donna, Texas
Donna is a city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. The population was 16,797 at the 2020 census.
History
Donna is in southeastern Hidalgo County, east of McAllen, in territory that was granted to Lino Cabazos as part of the La Blanca la ...
, USA
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Dønna
Dønna is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre of the island municipality is the village of Solfjellsj ...
, Norway
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Donna (crater)
Donna is a tiny lunar crater on the near side of the Moon. Its name is an Italian female given name, and does not refer to a specific person. It is located in the eastern half of the Mare Tranquillitatis, at the summit of the lunar dome Omega (ω) ...
, a tiny lunar crater on the near side of the Moon
Music
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The Donnas
The Donnas were an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1993. The band consisted of Brett Anderson (lead vocals), Allison Robertson (guitar, backing vocals), Maya Ford (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Torry Castellano (drums ...
, American all-girl rock band
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Donna (radio station)
MNM is a Belgian pop music radio station, launched in 2009, operated by the Flemish public broadcaster Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT). The station broadcasts in Flanders and Brussels on FM and can be heard in France and the Netherlands on ...
, former Flemish music radio station located in Belgium
* ''Donna'' (album), album by Donna Cruz
* "Donna" (Ritchie Valens song), a 1958 song by Ritchie Valens, covered in the United Kingdom by Marty Wilde
* "Donna" (10cc song), a 1972 song by 10cc
* "Donna", song from ''
Hair
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Wally Lewis
Walter James Lewis AM (born 1 December 1959) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1980s and 1990s. He became a commentator for television coverage of the spo ...
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Donna, Donna
"Dona Dona", popularly known as "Donna, Donna", is a song about a calf being led to slaughter, written by Sholom Secunda and Aaron Zeitlin. Originally a Yiddish language song "Dana Dana" (in Yiddish דאַנאַ דאַנאַ), also known as "Dos ...
", a Yiddish song
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Donna the Prima Donna
"Donna the Prima Donna" is a song written by Dion DiMucci and Ernie Maresca and performed by Dion. It reached No. 6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, No. 9 on the ''Cash Box'' Top 100, and No. 17 on ''Billboard''s R&B chart in 1963,
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Hurricane Donna
Hurricane Donna, known in Puerto Rico as Hurricane San Lorenzo, was the strongest hurricane of the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season, and caused severe damage to the Lesser Antilles, the Greater Antilles, and the East Coast of the United States, ...
, Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1960
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Una donna
''Una donna'' is a 1906 novel by Sibilla Aleramo, and is one of the first explicitly feminist Italian novels. The novel was composed between 1901 and 1904, and while initially rejected by editors Treves, Baldini & Castoldi, it was published in Nove ...
'', 1906 novel by Sibilla Aleramo
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Australian English
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generic trademark
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for a
duvet
A duvet (, ; ), usually called a comforter or (''down-filled'') quilt in US English, and a doona in Australian English, is a type of bedding consisting of a soft flat bag filled with either down, feathers, wool, cotton, silk, or a synthetic a ...
or quilt, after the first local manufacturer
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