Adon (disambiguation)

Adon (אדון) is the Northwest Semitic for lord, mostly used of deities.

Adon may also refer to:

Places

  • Adon, Loiret, France

People

  • Adon P. Brown (1873–1942), American lawyer and politician
  • Adon Gomis (born 1992), French footballer
  • Ado of Vienne, (French: Adon; died 874) archbishop, saint and author of a martyrology
  • Adon, a Philistine king during the 7th century BCE
  • Joan Adon (born 1998), Dominican baseball player

Other uses

  • ADON, assistant director of nursing
  • Adon (Street Fighter), a character in the Street Fighter franchise
  • El Adon, a Jewish liturgical poem
  • In the Tanakh Adon may be used for men and angels as well as to El
  • Greek Adonis, an adoption of Tammuz

See also

  • Adonai (my lord), in Jewish tradition is used as a euphemism to refer to God
  • Add-on
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