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gan¹

  • /ɡæn/ UK
  • /ɡan/ British, Northern England, Scotland

Rhymes with -æn

Where it comes from

Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).

verb gans · gawn · gannin · went · gane · gang

  1. North, Northumbria, Yorkshire To go. The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am

gan²

  • /ɡæn/ UK
  • /ɡan/ British, Northern England, Scotland

Rhymes with -æn

verb

  1. archaic, past simple past of gin

Gan³

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 贛／赣 (Gàn, “Jiangxi; Gan (language)”).

proper noun

  1. One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.

Gan⁴

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Ngen (“dialect of the Beng language”).

Gan⁵

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Mandarin 甘 (Gān), Hokkien 顏／颜 (Gân), etc.

proper noun Gans

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.

Gan⁶

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Dhivehi ގަން (gan̊).

proper noun

  1. An industrial island of Addu.
  2. An uninhabited island of Gaafu Dhaalu.
  3. A residential island of Laamu.

GaN⁷

  • /ɡæn/

noun

  1. uncountable gallium nitride.

GAN⁸

  • /ɡæn/

Rhymes with -æn

noun GANs

  1. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of generative adversarial network The GAN we look at in the next exercise is a vanilla GAN with convolution.
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Great American Novel During that week of squall in March of that year Hem would talk till dawn about which son of a bitch who could spell cat was going to write the G.A.N.
  3. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable Acronym of giant axonal neuropathy
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of good article nomination

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: kam, route, stem, kin, jean, dry, nee, food, jan, coombe, ken, kan, som, wurtzite, luo, foo

Translations

Every language

name variety of Chinese

한국어간어 ganeo
日本語カン語 kango, 贛語 kango
中文贛語 /赣语 gànyǔ, 江西話 /江西话 jiāngxīhuà
Françaisgan
DeutschGan
Русскийгань ganʹ, цзянси́йский czjansíjskij
Tiếng Việttiếng Cám, Cám ngữ
العربيةكَن kan

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@misc{gan_2026,
  title = {gan},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gan},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}