Usually means: Bringer of bad luck, cursed.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jonah: Merriam-Webster
  2. Jonah: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Jonah, Jonah: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Jonah: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Jonah, jonah: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jonah, jonah: Wordnik
  7. Jonah: Wiktionary
  8. Jonah: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Jonah: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Jonah: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Jonah, jonah: Dictionary.com
  12. Jonah: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. JONAH (organization), JONAH, Jonah (Breathe song), Jonah (Lorenzetto), Jonah (Paffhausen), Jonah (TV series), Jonah (disambiguation), Jonah (given name), Jonah (musical), Jonah (novel), Jonah: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Jonah: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. jonah: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Jonah: Rhymezone
  17. Jonah: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. jonah: FreeDictionary.org
  19. jonah: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Jonah: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Jonah: Who2
  22. jonah: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. Jonah: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jonah: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. JONAH: Acronym Finder
  3. Jonah: Wordcraft Dictionary
  4. jonah: A Word A Day

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Jonah: Easton Bible
  2. Jonah: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Jonah: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jonah, jonah: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Jonah)

▸ noun:  A male given name from Hebrew.
▸ noun:  (biblical) A minor prophet who was cast into the sea and swallowed by a great fish.
▸ noun:  (biblical) A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
▸ noun:  The 10th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
▸ noun:  (nautical, slang) A person who brings a ship bad luck.
▸ noun:  (slang, by extension) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx.

Similar:
jinx, Jonas, Jon., Jonathon, Jonathan, Jonael, Johnathan, Johnna, Johannah, Johan, more...

Opposite:
lucky, fortunate, blessed

Phrases:
rabbi jonah, Jonah crab, Jonah Peretti, Book of Jonah, jonah and the whale, more...

Adjectives:
old, poor, biblical, little, hosea, second, historical, regular, modern, disobedient, reluctant

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Similar:
jinx, Jonas, Jon., Jonathon, Jonathan, Jonael, Johnathan, Johnna, Johannah, Johan, more...

Opposite:
lucky, fortunate, blessed

Phrases:
rabbi jonah, Jonah crab, Jonah Peretti, Book of Jonah, jonah and the whale, jonah tali lomu, lomu, jonah tali, lomu jonah tali, Jonah Hill, Jonah Lomu, Jonah Falcon, Jonah Hauer-King, Jonah Hill filmography, more...

Adjectives:
old, poor, biblical, little, hosea, second, historical, regular, modern, disobedient, reluctant

Colors:
    teal,     aqua,     turquoise,     azure,     cerulean, more...



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