The word "donna" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a way to refer to an Italian or Spanish woman as a sign of respect. You can use it when talking about a particular woman or in a general sense. Example sentence: Hola, donna, ¿cómo estás?.
Europe needs Britain as a prima donna in its ensemble.
IT IS not for nothing that the term "prima donna" is borrowed from the world of opera.
At the heart of the play is a grand performance by Marina Neyolova, playing the mistress of the house Ranevskaya as a wayward prima donna.
By the end she has jumped to her death in an act of violent defiance.Currently playing at the Royal Opera House (ROH) in London, the opera is in many ways a traditional example of the genre, and not simply because the prima donna dies at the end.
Others thought this the act of an irksome prima donna, whose claims to lead the right of the party have always looked exaggerated.There could be trouble for Mr Cameron from that quarter; its members have never cared for him, and Mr Fox and Mr Paterson can expect no future job offer under his leadership.
Won't the arrival of a prima donna at Foggy Bottom make these turf wars even worse than usual?Not necessarily.
The path to the university, whose president is Donna Shalala, the long-serving health secretary during both terms of Bill Clinton's administration, is well trodden by White House hopefuls: Mitt Romney was here three weeks ago for a Spanish-language interview in an attempt to woo the Hispanic vote.
Throwing a snippet of Donna Summer's I Feel Love into the Can't Stop Feeling while singer Alex Kapranos shimmies across the stage like Sink The Pink's straightest extra and hammering through the demonic disco of Michael, Take Me Out, Love Illumination and Ulysses as if they're headlining on a tight deadline, Franz are back and fighting for it.
The family have called on the PSNI to question the convicted bomber Donna Maguire, 57.
Two novels will loom large under Christmas trees this year: Eleanor Catton's record-breaking Booker winner (longest novel, youngest author) The Luminaries (Granta), and Donna Tartt's vast study of art and loss, The Goldfinch (Little, Brown).
This year, as you wander around, you might fall into step with Margaret Drabble, or Willie McIlvanney or Denise Mina or Haruki Murakami, just as in previous years Donna Tartt, or Thomas Keneally, or Bill Clinton or Toni Morrison.
