Home › Words › A › ananasananas/əˈneɪnəs/ananas means pineapple.ananas is pronounced /əˈneɪnəs/.EtymologyFrom Italian ananas, from French ananas, from Spanish ananás, from Portuguese ananás, adapted from Old Tupi naná (“pineapple”).nounPineapple.e.g.“Witness, thou best Anana, thou the Pride / Of vegetable Life […].” — a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:Bromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.abacaxi 68% match — A large Brazilian pineapple. vs ananas →anona 67% match — custard apple (Annona) vs ananas →pinguin 64% match — Bromelia pinguin, a plant with edible fruit. vs ananas →annona 63% match — custard apple (tree of the genus Annona and its fruit) vs ananas →pineappleade 62% match — A sweetened pineapple drink. vs ananas →colada 61% match — piña colada vs ananas →banan 59% match — Banana. vs ananas →pineberry 58% match — A white variety of strawberry with a pineapple flavour. vs ananas →