Definitions

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  • noun a former Portuguese gold coin.
  • proper noun A male given name.

Etymologies

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From Latin Iōhannes, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōannēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānnān, "Yahweh is gracious").

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Examples

  • In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes´ childhood town in the country.

    unknown title 2009

  • Today, while the name Johannes Vermeer guarantees record crowds at any exhibition, that of his contemporary Gabriel Metsu is familiar mainly to serious devotees of Dutch Golden Age painting.

    A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011

  • Today, while the name Johannes Vermeer guarantees record crowds at any exhibition, that of his contemporary Gabriel Metsu is familiar mainly to serious devotees of Dutch Golden Age painting.

    A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011

  • So it was that Captain Johannes Maartens, Hendrik Hamel, and the twelve sea-cunies of us roystered and bawled in the fisher village while the winter gales whistled across the Yellow Sea.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Captain Johannes Maartens was the last, completing the fourteen of us that clung on in the cleft.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Johannes is also refreshingly honest and straight forward.

    The New York Cork Report: 2009

  • Johannes is soft-spoken with an enchanting way about him that draws you in.

    Video: Anthony Road Wine Co: Noble Rot, High Brix Levels Present in 2008 Dessert Wines 2009

  • When the sampans came ashore Captain Johannes Maartens was all interest, for here were silks again.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • Johannes is soft-spoken with an enchanting way about him that draws you in.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2009

  • Poor Johannes is like his counterpart Michel Michelkleiner and his innocence causes his poverty to increase before he has barely set out on the road.

    Book Review: In Sleeping Beauty’s Bed IV « Colleen Anderson 2010

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