rona

noun

1. (informal, often, uncountable, with-definite-article)COVID-19.

   “If I caught the rona, I'd make sure I self-isolate for two weeks minimum!”

   ““bruh you’re goat, I don’t get a paycheck for another week & even then I think my store is shutting down next week cos of rona,” one Twitter user replied to Lil Nas.”

   “The rona is out here getting everyone. NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski first dropped the “Wojbomb” that four Brooklyn Nets players test[ed] positive for COVID-19 but initially didn't release the names of those individuals.”

   “COVID19 might be shutting down the world as we know it (get better soon, Tom and Rita), but that rona can't stop the pod.”

   “Morgan Stanley has offered some investment-banking employees $500 to cover equipment purchases, according to social media posts, which may soon result in more creative Rona Rigs on Instagram.”

2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of return on net assets.

name

1. A female given name.

   “"Rona! Corona Mitchell! Corona Margarita! Cuckoo! Where've you gone to?" "Coo—ee!" came in reply from the distance, and presently Rona appeared beckoning vigorously.”

   “I feel that I should like if possible to contribute that I am enclosing the usual cheque with the request that you will pass on the usual fiver to Rona [Corona Watson] with my best love.”

   ““Scott—Corona Scott.” She stretched to shake his hand across the narrow aisle. “But my friends call me Rona—Corona sounds a bit uppish, so I've been told.” “Gordon C. McCormick—Gordy,” he introduced himself, giving her another grin.”

2. In Māori mythology, a legendary woman who cursed the moon.
3. A surname from Hungarian.
4. South Rona, a small inhabited island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
5. North Rona, a small and remote uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
6. (historical)A Nazi puppet army under the command of the Waffen-SS compromising of Russian defectors