Johnname/d͡ʒɒn/

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  A male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.

  • John is a most excellent name, and Smith is a surname which is worthy of respect and honor, but wo to the man on whom they are conjoined! For John Smith to aspire to senatorial dignities or to the laurel of a poet is simply ridiculous. Who is John Smith? He is lost in the multitude of John Smiths, and individual fame is impossible.
  • The name I refer to is John. It has been borne by many illustrious men and an innumerable multitude of the obscure. - - - It is as fixed as the English landscape and the procession of seasons. It never becomes wearisome or tarnished. Nothing affects it; nothing can bring it into contempt; it stands like a rock amid the turbulent waves of human history, as fine and noble a thing now as it was when it first took shape on human lips. It is a name to live up to; but if one who bears it sinks into disrepute it falls not with him, but rather stays in the firmament above him, shining down upon him like a reproachful star.
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  informalA male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.

  • a John Doe murder case; the dreaded Dear John letter; if we were to ask John Q. Public his opinion
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  informalA male given name originating from the Bible [in turn from Hebrew]; very popular since the Middle Ages.

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  biblicallifestylereligionPersons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).

  • There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
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  biblicallifestylereligionThe Gospel of St John, a book of the New Testament of the Bible. Traditionally the fourth of the four gospels.

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  biblicallifestylereligionOne of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).

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  A surname originating as a patronymic.

Johnnoun/d͡ʒɒn/

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  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA new recruit at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

  • I and the other "Johns," as I soon discovered all new-comers at Sandhurst were, and are still, styled, although at the time I was unconscious of it, managed to troop in after the A company, but although not two minutes after them, found all the different messes already seated and hard at work.
  • To avoid bullying, first-year “Johns” (from Johnny Raw) “fagged” for senior classmen known as “Regs.” Fagging included making beds, running messages, and smuggling contraband.
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  video-gamesAn excuse, chiefly made by a losing player for their poor performance.

  • Remember, no Johns.
  • This is the sound of a John. A John. He wants to wait.

johnnoun/ˈd͡ʒɑn/

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  slangA prostitute's client.

  • The girls sat there while the johns (customers) moped around giving them the once-over.
  • Well she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire, And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire. You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake, Oh oh, he one more gone, he one more john who make the mistake.
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  slangA device or place for urination and defecation: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (dated) a chamber pot or outhouse.

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  slangA Western man traveling in East Asia.

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  A male mule.