1. joanna - Noun
2. Joanna - Proper noun
joanna (plural joannas)
(Cockney rhyming slang, often "old joanna") A piano.
A female given name from Latin [in turn from Hebrew].
(biblical) One of the women following Jesus.
Obsolete spelling of Johanna (“the island of Anjouan”)
Source: en.wiktionary.org"Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn't recognize Latin when he hears it,” said Joanna. Agatha Christie
You're proving to be a merciless ghost, Papa. I should have expected it, knowing you as I do, Joanna said. Her tears were coming faster now. "What do you mean to do, Papa? Shall you haunt me for the rest of my days?" Her voice broke; kneeling on the icy tiles before John's coffin, she wept bitterly. Sharon Kay Penman
I'm a big Johnny Cash girl. And I love singers like Laura Marling and Joanna Newsom. Imogen Poots
That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.' I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I'll take that comparison, thank you. Lucy Punch
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorising them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. Tom Hiddleston
Joanna took Mel to Dresden, to the Frauenkirche. The timed their visit to coincide with a monthly English evensong. "Firebombs not enough?” Mel whispered. "Now we inflict Anglicanism on them?”. China Miéville