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- 1 Form of a (all article senses).; Used before a vowel sound. indefinite
"I'll be there in half an hour."
- 2 Form of a (all article senses).; Used before /h/ in a stressed or unstressed syllable. indefinite
"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 Form of a (all article senses).; Used before one and words with initial ⟨u⟩, ⟨eu⟩ when pronounced /ju/. indefinite, rare
"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 Form of a (all article senses).; Used before all consonants. British, West-Country, indefinite, nonstandard
- 1 If archaic
"[…] An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him."
- 2 So long as. archaic
"An it harm none, do what ye will."
- 3 As if; as though. archaic
"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."
- 1 Initialism of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: a union territory of India. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Alternative form of Anu. alt-of, alternative
- 1 The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
- 2 A set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy. US, uncountable
- 3 Initialism of author's note or authors' note. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 an associate degree in nursing wordnet
- 1 one British, West-Country, nonstandard
- 1 In each; to or for each; per.
"I was only going twenty miles an hour."
Etymology
From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.
From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.
From Middle English an (“and, if”). Doublet of and.
Borrowed from Georgian ან (an).
From the Old English an, on (preposition).
Derived from the first letters of army and navy.
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