Jordan

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Hebrew ירדן (yarden), Jordan (originally the river).

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Singular
Jordan

Plural
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Jordan

  1. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  2. (geography) A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
  3. A male given name; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
    • 1989 Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry, Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
      I call him Jordan and it will do. He has no other name before or after. What was there to call him, fished as he was from the stinking Thames? A child can't be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
  4. A surname derived from the male given name.
  5. A female given name used since mid-20th century.

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country
river
male given name

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Jordan m.

  1. Jordan (country)
  2. Jordan (river)

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Jordan

  1. Jordan (country)
  2. Jordan (river)

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Jordan (stem Jordan-*)

  1. Jordan (river).

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Jordan

  1. A male given name, cognate to English Jordan.

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Jordan m.

  1. Jordan (river)

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Jordan

  1. Jordan (country)
  2. Jordan (river)

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Jordan

  1. Jordan (river)

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Jordan

  1. Jordan (country)

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