Jonathan vs Jan - What's the difference?
jonathan | jan |
A son of Saul, first mentioned in 1 Samuel.
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of biblical origin.
* 1936 (w, Frank O'Connor), In The Train . The Stories of Frank O'Connor, Knopf, 1952. page 166:
* 1998 , The Chimney Sweeper's Boy , ISBN 0670879274, page 168:
A female nickname, sometimes used as a formal given name.
* 1899 Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith : Chapter 1:
* 2008 , (Stephen King), Just After Sunset , Simon and Schuster (2009), ISBN 1416586652, page 129:
A male given name, in English mostly applied to foreign language speakers.
English diminutives of female given names
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As proper nouns the difference between jonathan and jan
is that jonathan is a son of Saul, first mentioned in 1 Samuel while Jan is abbreviation of January|lang=en.As nouns the difference between jonathan and jan
is that jonathan is an apple cultivar from New York while jan is obsolete form of lang=en.jonathan
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- And it came to pass, when he had made an end to speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan' was knit with the soul of David, and ' Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
- "Well indeed," said Foley, "'tis a mystery to me how the sergeant puts up with her. If any woman up and called me an outlandish name like Jonathan when everyone knew my name was plain John I'd do fourteen days for her - by God, I would, and a calendar month."
- So I'd change to names I really like. I mean, Jonathan'. If I ever have a son I'm going to call him '''Jonathan''', so I'd have that. And then I like monosyllabic surnames that aren't too common, so I'd have Dean or Bell or King. There you are, how about ' Jonathan King?
jan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Etymology 2
Shortened from (Janet) and (Janice).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan ," cried her friend.
- She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan ? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?
