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Juan

masc. proper name, Spanish form of John.

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Juan

Juan is a given name, the Spanish language and Manx language version of John. It is very common in the Isle of Man, in Spain (its origin) and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world, and also in the Philippines. The feminine form in Spanish is Juana, or Juanita on its diminutive.

Juan ( or ; 娟, 隽) "beautiful, graceful" is also commonly used as a given name for Chinese women. The Chinese character " 卷", which is almost (being pronounced ) homophonic with the characters for the female name, is a division of a traditional Chinese manuscript or book and can be translated as "fascicle", "scroll", "chapter" or "volume".

Juan (street protester)

Juan, also known as Pedro, is a street protester operating in Seattle, Washington, United States. He is known for yelling the same statements at the same location for over twenty years.

Usage examples of "juan".

Don Juan got up and walked to a blue agave growing in front of the house, next to the porch.

Seeking Don Juan, they found him playing chess with the alcaide of the palace, and the renegade at once began to comment on the Christian religion in uncomplimentary terms.

Potts had drawn for Leaphorn on a sheet of notepaper took him across the San Juan down the asphalt of Highway 35 into the Aneth Oil Field, and thence onto a dirt road which led up the slopes of Casa Del Eco Mesa.

Don Quixote and Sancho withdrew to their room, leaving Don Juan and Don Jeronimo astonished by the mixture of intelligence and madness they had seen and convinced that these were the true Don Quixote and Sancho, not the ones described by the Aragonese author.

Don Juan de Solorzano, a celebrated lawyer, who had heard him preach when Governor of Guancavelico, he found himself named Bishop of Asuncion del Paraguay.

Being at the head of everything in Asuncion, Cardenas no longer hesitated, but ordered an officer, Don Juan de Vallejo Villasanti, with a troop of soldiers to march to the college of the Jesuits.

At present there are of this ayllu JUAN PIZARRO YUPANQUI, DON FRANCISCO QUISPI, ALONSO TARMA YUPANQUI of the lineage of AYAR UCHU.

Book of Chilan Balam which was found there was a redaction made by an Indian, Don Juan Josef Hoil, in 1782.

I had witnessed a similar phenomenon of birdcalls being answered, years before with don Juan.

Old World and the New is Spanish, bearing the date 1500, which was drawn up by the Biscayan cartographer and pilot Juan de la Cosa, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage.

Interviewer: For six years from 1960-66 Carlos Castaneda served as an apprentice to a Yaqui Indian brujo, or sorcerer named don Juan.

Bruchard says that this phrase defines and summarizes the Byronic Don Juan.

Juan had told him about the Californio bull and bear fights, a bull and a grizzly either chained together or put into a pit and aggravated until they turned on one another.

The merchants of Gautemala, likewise, shipped their commodities to Cartagena by way of Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan river, for they feared to send goods across the Gulf of Honduras to Havana, because of the French and English buccaneers hanging about Cape San Antonio.

Anna from her vows, and gave them the nuptial blessing at the instance of Don Juan Casanova, majordomo of the Vatican, and uncle of Don Jacob.