Donna vs Nonna - What's the difference?
donna | nonna |
A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
* 1837 , Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)
* 2005 , Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni , page 22
(dialectal) grandmother
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 29, author=Alex Witchel, title=Borscht: What Would Nana Say?, work=New York Times
, passage=An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas , or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy. }}
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As nouns the difference between donna and nonna
is that donna is a lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy while nonna is grandmother.As a proper noun Donna
is {{given name|female|from=Italian}}.donna
English
Noun
(en noun)- What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones
- In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna' Anna, the sentimental and spurned ' Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.
Synonyms
* (lady) lady, madam, mistress, noblewomanCoordinate terms
* (lady) donnonna
English
Noun
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