Dan
name, noun, prep ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past. obsolete
"Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise."
- 2 A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
- 3 A rank of black belt in martial arts.
- 4 Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
- 5 A dan buoy.
"Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…]"
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- 6 Alternative form of dan (title of honour). alt-of, alternative
- 7 Acronym of deadenylating nuclease, a protein that binds the 5' cap of mRNA and begins degradation in the 3' to 5' direction. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 8 Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
- 9 A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
- 10 Acronym of Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of than. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"It's easy. It's nothin'. It's less dan nothin'."
- 1 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."
- 2 A Mande ethnic group from northwestern Ivory Coast and neighboring Liberia.
- 3 Acronym of Divers Alert Network. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 4 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."
- 5 The language of this people, belonging to the Southern Mande branch.
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- 6 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 […]"
- 7 A surname.
- 8 The fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah (who was Rachel's handmaid).
- 9 One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Dan.
- 10 A former city occupied by this tribe.
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More examples"Dan is good at making approaches to strangers."
Etymology
From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.
Uncertain.
From Japanese 段 (dan).
From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 担 (dàn) and Chinese 石 (dàn).
Traditionally held to be derived from Hebrew דָּן (Dan), although recent scholars instead link the name to Denyen, the Sea Peoples.