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Stan

proper nounnounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //stæn//

A municipality in southeast Slovenia.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A municipality in southeast Slovenia.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the male given name Stanley.

    Stan Jessop taught at a different school now but lived in the same small 1930s semi-detached as he had done ten years ago. Stan made him sound like an old allotment guy but he was only thirty-six.

    Finally, there’s a Stan Lee fly, in honor of the late Marvel Comics visionary.

  3. 3

    A diminutive of the male given name Stanislav.

  4. 4

    A surname from Romanian.

Etymology

Clipping of Stanley.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of stanAlternative letter-case form of stan (a type of superfan)

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of stanAlternative letter-case form of stan (country whose name ends with -stan)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *os Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam Middle Persian -stʾn' Classical Persian ـِستَانbor. English -stan English Stan From -stan.

Forms

plural
Stans
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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