Donovan

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English

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Etymology

From Irish Ó Donndubháin (“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”), from donn (“brown”) and dubh (“black”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɒnəvɪn/, /ˈdʌnəvɪn/

Proper noun

Donovan

  1. A surname from Irish.
    • 2023 February 28, Judd Legum, “Is it "OK to be white"?”, in Popular Information‎:
      Brian Friedberg and Joan Donovan, researchers at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, documented how the campaign to inject IOTBW into the national consciousness through fliers was highly organized.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. The Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.
  4. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Georgia, United States.
  5. A village in Beaver Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.

Derived terms

Derived terms

Noun

Donovan (plural Donovans)

  1. (slang, archaic) A potato.
    Synonym: murphy

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

References

  • Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001
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