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an¹

  • /ˈæn/
  • [ˈæn] Australia, UK
  • [ˈan] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈeən] US
  • [ˈɛən] US
  • [ˈɛən] Canada
  • [ˈæ(ː)n] Canada
  • /ən/ unstressed

Sounds like and (unstressed form), in (unstressed form) · Rhymes with -æn

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos

Proto-Germanic *ainaz

Proto-West Germanic *ain

Old English ān

Middle English an

English an

From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.

article

  1. indefinite Used before a vowel sound. I'll be there in half an hour.
  2. indefinite Used before /h/ in a stressed or unstressed syllable. 1 I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my crie. 2 He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.
  3. indefinite, rare Used before one and words with initial ⟨u⟩, ⟨eu⟩ when pronounced /ju/. God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
  4. UK, West Country, indefinite, nonstandard Used before all consonants.

number

  1. UK, West Country, nonstandard one

an²

  • /ˈæn/
  • [ˈæn] Australia, UK
  • [ˈan] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈeən] US
  • [ˈɛən] US
  • [ˈɛən] Canada
  • [ˈæ(ː)n] Canada
  • /ən/ unstressed

Sounds like and (unstressed form), in (unstressed form) · Rhymes with -æn

Where it comes from

From Middle English an (“and, if”). Doublet of and.

conjunction

  1. archaic If […] An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
  2. archaic So long as. An it harm none, do what ye will.
  3. archaic As if; as though. At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.

an³

  • /ˈæn/
  • [ˈæn] Australia, UK
  • [ˈan] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈeən] US
  • [ˈɛən] US
  • [ˈɛən] Canada
  • [ˈæ(ː)n] Canada
  • /ən/ unstressed

Sounds like and (unstressed form), in (unstressed form) · Rhymes with -æn

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Georgian ან (an).

noun ans

  1. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).

an⁴

  • /ˈæn/
  • [ˈæn] Australia, UK
  • [ˈan] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ˈeən] US
  • [ˈɛən] US
  • [ˈɛən] Canada
  • [ˈæ(ː)n] Canada
  • /ən/ unstressed

Sounds like and (unstressed form), in (unstressed form) · Rhymes with -æn

Where it comes from

From the Old English an, on (preposition).

preposition

  1. In each; to or for each; per. I was only going twenty miles an hour.

AN⁵

Where it comes from

Derived from the first letters of army and navy.

noun

  1. US, uncountable A set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy.

AN⁶

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

noun ANs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of author's note or authors' note.author's note or authors' note
  2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of antinatalism.antinatalism
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of antinatalist.antinatalist

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: a union territory of India.the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

An⁷

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Anu.Anu

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