English Explanatory Dictionary

Saint Ann

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Ellipsis of Saint Ann Parish: a parish of Middlesex County, Jamaica.

Word forms

Saint Ann St. Ann St Ann St.-Ann St-Ann Saint-Ann

Etymology

Ellipsis of Saint Ann Parish. Named after Saint Ann's Bay, which was in turn named after Lady Anne Hyde, first wife of James II and VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and using the saintly terminology of the preceding Spanish name of the settlement and bay of Spanish Santa Gloria.

Synonyms

Saint Ann Parish

Related words

St Anne's

Derived words

Saint Ann Parish
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