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dan

nounnounnounnounnounprepositioncommon in dialogue

  • //dæn//
  • //dɑn//

A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.

    Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise.

    Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell.

    This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid.

    The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.

Etymology

From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.

noun

  1. 1

    A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

Etymology

Uncertain.

noun

  1. 1

    A rank of black belt in martial arts.

  2. 2

    Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.

Etymology

From Japanese 段 (dan).

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.

  2. 2

    A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.

Etymology

From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 担 (dàn) and Chinese 石 (dàn).

noun

  1. 1

    A dan buoy.

    Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…]

    Dumping dans. Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground. They are fitted with a topmark in the shape of a St. Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length. Live dan. Dan buoy for which a[…]

preposition

  1. 1

    Variant of thanPronunciation spelling of than.

    It's easy. It's nothin'. It's less dan nothin'.

Forms

plural
dans
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