donovan

n. a common last name or first name for a man.

n. a surname of Irish origin or a masculine given name derived from the surname.

“Donovan Mitchell is a famous basketball player in the United States.”

“The professor introduced Mr. Donovan as the lead researcher on the archaeological project in Dublin.”

n. an old, informal word for a potato.

n. a slang term for a potato, now considered obsolete or highly archaic.

“In the old story, the farmer sat down to a meal of boiled donovans.”

“The glossary of nineteenth-century cant includes 'donovan' as a colloquialism for the common potato.”

Archaic · Slang