noun
ana
AH-nuh
noun
1
A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
"The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards"
— publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson (1803)
"Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas, which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum, a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy."
— Kevin J. Hayes (2008)
2
Anorexia.
3
A member of the Ana people.
adv
1
Of each; an equal quantity.
"wine and honey, ana / ij"
2
In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
"Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space."
— Rudy von Bitter Rucker (1985)
"Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms."
— Animation journal (2005)
name
1
A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
2
A river in Oregon, United States.
3
An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
4
The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.
Word Forms
more ana comparative, anas plural, most ana superlative
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Etymology
Formed from the Latin suffix -ana; compare ism (from -ism), itis (from -itis), phobia (from -phobia).