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dan¹
- /dæn/
Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.
noun Dan
- A 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.
dan²
Where it comes from
Uncertain.
noun dans
- A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
dan³
- /dæn/
- /dɑn/
Rhymes with -æn, -ɑːn
Where it comes from
From Japanese 段 (dan).
noun dans
- A rank of black belt in martial arts.
- Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
dan⁴
- /dɑn/
- /dæn/
Where it comes from
From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 担 (dàn) and Chinese 石 (dàn).
noun dans · dan
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Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
Similar: picul
- A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
dan⁵
- /dæn/
Where it comes from
Uncertain.
noun dans
- A dan buoy. Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…]
dan⁶
preposition
- Pronunciation spelling of than It's easy. It's nothin'. It's less dan nothin'.
Dan⁷
- /dæn/
Rhymes with -æn
Where it comes from
From Hebrew דָּן (Dan).
proper noun Dans
- A male given name from Hebrew. A widely shared local television video of last week's news conference, which was posted on YouTube, reached more than 5 million views and was amplified by Elon Musk and Fox News, where Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi appeared on primetime shows two nights in a row.
- A diminutive of the male given name Daniel. In Welland, a blue-collar burg between Buffalo and Toronto, [Daniel] Paille’s and [Dan] Girardi’s friends, relatives and fans will tune in to the latest installment of what some have labeled the Battle of Welland or the Battle of the Dans.
- A diminutive of the female given name Danielle. […] the director of Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon replaces the characters' intellectual and verbal energy with "transparent rationalizations for the personal hang-ups of the characters […]
- A surname.
- The fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah (who was Rachel's handmaid).
- One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Dan.
- A former city occupied by this tribe.
Dan⁸
- /dæn/
Rhymes with -æn
noun Dans
- Alternative form of dan (title of honour).
Dan⁹
- /dæn/
Rhymes with -æn
proper noun
- A Mande ethnic group from northwestern Ivory Coast and neighboring Liberia.
- The language of this people, belonging to the Southern Mande branch.
DAN10
noun
- Acronym of deadenylating nuclease, a protein that binds the 5' cap of mRNA and begins degradation in the 3' to 5' direction.
- Acronym of Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.
proper noun
- Acronym of Divers Alert Network
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: confer, provide, give, yield, daniel, reason, exist, dat, case, thus, nad, nick, will, given, consequently, day
Translations
Talk about this word "dan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dan. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dan. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dan "dan." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dan.Cite this
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title = {dan},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dan},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
