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ana

ana

1 9.9
A collection of short true stories and funny facts about a person or place
  • noun
  • /ˈænə/
  • Literature
: ana
  • Historians often collect anas to preserve amusing anecdotes from the past.

Examples

  • The book contains many anas about famous authors and their strange habits.

  • This anthology features various anas centered on the life of the renowned philosopher.

  • Gotta love those Santa anas, honey.

    Breathless (1983)

  • The santa ana winds came in last night and trashed my fries.

    My First Mister (2001)

  • Transition to the southbound side of the santa ana freeway.

    The End of Violence (1997)

  • Don't be confused, anorexia and 'Ana' are not the same thing.

    Blog text (4)

  • "O'hana" means family.

    Lilo & Stitch (2002)

  • The term anaphylaxis is derived from the Greek words meaning "without" (ana) and "protection" (phylaxis).

    Academic text (2005)

  • Your positive ANA could well be because you have autoimmune thyroid disease, but it usually just points to autoimmune issues in general; it will be raised in any number of diseases.

    Blog text (31)

Synonyms

gossip
vsana
  • Informal
198 1.1

Informal talk about other people's private lives, often with rumors

is presented as a collected set of short stories or literary notes
anecdotage
vsana
1 9.6

A group of short amusing stories about a person's life

also includes literary gossip and broader material about a topic

Compounds

Santa Ana
  • US
8 6.6

A strong hot dry wind from the deserts of southern California that blows toward the coast

Surface Forms

ana singular
anas plural

Etymology

Ana comes from the old habit of collecting short, often funny or personal sayings and stories about a person into a small book; a helpful way to remember it is to think of the word anecdote, because an ana is like a little 'album' of 'anecdotes'.