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Jordan vs Sean - What's the difference?

jordan | sean |

As nouns the difference between jordan and sean

is that jordan is (obsolete) a pot or vessel with a large neck, formerly used by physicians and alchemists while sean is sign, omen.

As a verb sean is

to mark with a sign, to bless or sean can be to deny:.

jordan

English

(wikipedia Jordan)

Proper noun

(s)
  • A country in the Middle East. Official name: Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
  • A river of the Middle East, mentioned in the Bible, that empties into the Dead Sea, and after which the country is named.
  • ; in the Middle Ages given to children baptized with Jordan water brought by Crusaders.
  • * 1989 (Jeanette Winterson), Sexing the Cherry , Grove Press 1998, ISBN 0802135781, pages 3-4:
    • 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 given him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren't bound to anything.
  • derived from the male given name.
  • used since mid-20th century.

    • Derived terms

    * Jordanian * Jordanesque *Jordanianism *Jordanianness

    See also

    * English unisex given names ----

    sean

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1874 , Edmund William Hunt Holdsworth, Deep-sea fishing and fishing boats (page 157)
    • Seaning is conducted on a large scale at St. Ives for the capture of pilchards
    (Webster 1913) ----