Definitions

1. proper noun

a woman’s given name, derived from the French name Dionne, or a variant of Diane.

“The Dionne sisters were famous for being the first quintuplets to survive infancy.”

2. noun

one of the five Canadian sisters, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, Marie, and Yvonne Dionne, born in 1934.

“The Dionne quintuplets were the subject of intense media attention in the 1930s.”