ジョン — meaning in English

English meaning

• jeon noun A savory Korean pancake made by coating sliced vegetables, meat, or fish in flour and egg and pan-frying them.
• john noun Informal US term for a toilet.

Senses

ジョン is used for these senses in English:

• tion (non-productive) Used to form nouns meaning "the action of (a verb)" or "the result of (a verb)". Words ending in this suffix are almost always derived from a similar Latin word; a few (e.g. gumption) are not derived from Latin and are unrelated to any verb. More often, -ation is used.
• John A en given name; very popular since the Middle Ages.
• John (biblical) Persons of the Christian Bible: John the Baptist; and names possibly referring to one, two or three persons, frequently called "Saint": John the Apostle, John the Evangelist and John of Patmos (also called John the Divine or John the Theologian).
• John (biblical) One of the books in the New Testament of the Bible, the epistles of John (1 John, 2 John and 3 John).
• jeon A fried, filled pancake-like food eaten in Korea

john — full definition

1. noun Informal US term for a toilet.
2. noun Slang for a prostitute's customer.

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