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Jordan

proper noun

  1. family name
  2. unisex given name
  3. urban area of Kowloon, Hong Kong
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noun

  1. chamberpot
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proper noun

  1. Middle Eastern country
  2. river in Middle East
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɔːdən/ / /ˈd͡ʒoːdən/ / /ˈd͡ʒɔɹdən/

name

Etymology: From Latin Iordanēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰορδάνης (Iordánēs), from Biblical Hebrew יַרְדֵּן (yardén, “Jordan (river)”). Doublet of Yarden. The area in Hong Kong is named after Jordan station, which is named after Jordan Road, which in turn is named after Sir John Jordan.

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    “Early the next morning I met with King Hussein of Jordan and then drove to the airport with the shah. All three of us agreed that we ought to give Sadat our support, and on the basis for a Middle East peace.”

    “Ghamr and Baqura became part of Jordan after the country gained independence from Britain in 1946. The areas were later seized by Israel but eventually incorporated into a peace treaty between the two countries in 1994. The treaty included a long-term lease that would allow Israeli farmers to cultivate the land.”

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    “Man Wah Sun Chuen in Jordan is one of Hong Kong’s oldest private housing estates.”

    “At least five people have died and over 30 have been injured after a fire broke out in a building in Jordan on Wednesday morning.”

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  24. A unisex given name from Hebrew.

    “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 give him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.”

    “Jordan Gee, 37, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was charged with three felony counts of threats against the president and one count of interstate threats, according to the Justice Department.”

  25. A unisex given name from Hebrew.
  26. A surname transferred from the given name derived from the male given name.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English jordan, from Latin jurdanus, unattested outside of England and of uncertain etymology. Usually derived from a clipped form of Jordan bottle, supposedly a bottle of curative water brought back from the River Jordan by Crusaders and pilgrims to the Holy Land, but this seems unsupported in its actual attestations. Its use for chamber pots may derive from the alchemical device having been used to hold urine.

  1. A vessel resembling a retort bulb or Florence flask with a truncated neck and flared mouth, used by medieval doctors and alchemists.

    “Make a good lute... and þerwiþ daub þi Iordan al aboute... and putte al þi mater in þe Iordan and hange it ouer þe fier by þe necke þᵗ þe glas be almoost an hond brede fro þe coolis.”

  2. A chamber pot.

    “2.Car. Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney: and your Chamber-lye breeds Fleas like a Loach.”