nan

nounnouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//nan//
United Kingdom//næn//
United Kingdom//nɑːn//
United States//næn//
United States//nɑn//
New Zealand//nɛn//

Synonym of nursemaid.

noun

1
obsoleteSynonym of maid: a servant girl.
2
obsoleteSynonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual.
3
Synonym of nursemaid.
4
Synonym of grandmother.
We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

Etymology

From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

noun

1
Variant of naanAlternative spelling of naan.
Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.

Etymology

See at naan.

Forms

plural: nans

nameless · Not having a name.namely · Specifically; that is to say.naming · The process of giving names to things.

nan · Synonym of nursemaid.

Nan · radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter N.NAN · NMDA antagonist neurotoxicity.nana · A banana.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.