Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island of western Scotland in the southern Inner Hebrides. Iona was an early center of Celtic Christianity.
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- proper noun A small island in the
Inner Hebrides . - proper noun A female
given name of mostlyScottish usage, derived from the place name.
Etymologies
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Examples
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WAGNER 45, IONA 28 (at New York) - The Seahawks (1-1) scored 38 unanswered points in a rout of Iona (1-1).
Latest News 2008
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WAGNER 45, IONA 28 (at New York) - The Seahawks (1-1) scored 38 unanswered points in a rout of Iona (1-1).
Latest News 2008
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Iona is in the title game for the second straight year and faces the winner of the game between St. John's and Manhattan.
NCAA Division I Mens Basketball - North Carolina vs. Iona 2002
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Iona is the first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference team to win consecutive championships since La Salle took three in a row from 1988-90.
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Whether directly, as in Iona, the maniac maid, and maternal earth, or indirectly, through nonviolent forgiveness and revolutionary brotherhood, Shelley's poems reconfigure gender categories.
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In the logic of the play, Iona is cast as a politically dangerous figure because of her perverse erotic engagements, although Shelley wisely never particularizes the full range of Iona's so-called perversity; and the ultimate crime that all of Iona's transgressions metaphorizeSwellfoot's "castration" is punished even before it is committed, since Swellfoot calls for the beheading of the Queen before she confronts him directly with her own demands for political power.
Shelley 2001
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Iona is interesting as the scene of St. Columba's ministry.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917
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I would have liked to have spent several days in Iona, prowling by myself around its haunted ruins and getting acquainted with its quaint inhabitants.
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career Lucy Maud 1917
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So Doughall Donn was made welcome in Iona for the sake of the child; and the druids gave him a hut and herd of his own and saw to it that neither he nor the child should want for anything.
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When Colmcille is excommunicated for taking up arms, he sails to Iona, which is when Ireland began exporting its monastic tradition.
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