Word Type

Verb

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "fan" can be used as verb, noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

hater

Typical Location

appliance store bedroom football stadium hockey game hot room living room room south sporting event sports stadium stadium window

Capable Of

come in many sizes complete puzzle cool air cool cpu cool hot room cool off in summer cool off person cool person cool room cool skin following team's record go crazy hope team wins refer to enthusiastic about shout during game side with home team side with other team

Derived Terms

Anglofan BNF Batfan Callafan Cumberfan FIAWOL FIJAGH Fanilow Fanilton Fannibal Fanson Hamilfan HitlerFan1488 Mirfanda Phan Pokéfan Trekfan Twifan WKF acafan actifan anti-fan anti-fandom bandwagon fan confan crifanac eofan faan fair weather fan fair-weather fan fake fan fakefan fan base fan belt fan blade fan camera fan car fan cast fan club fan coral fan dance fan death fan fiction fan heater fan letter fan lobster fan mail fan marker fan mussel fan out fan out fan oven fan page fan palm fan sign fan the fire fan the flame fan the flames fan tracery fan-assisted oven fan-blast fan-foot fan-in fan-in-fin fan-nerved fan-out fan-shaped fan-tailed fan-veined fan-wheel fanac fanarchist fanart fanback fanbearer fanbelt fanblog fanboat fanboy fanbrat fancam fancast fanchant fancruft fandemonium fandom fandub fandumb faned fanfest fanfilm fanflower fanfold fanfoot fangal fangame fangirl fanglomerate fanhood fanjet fankid fankind fanlation fanleaf fanless fanlike fanling fanlisting fanlore fanmade fanmag fanmaker fanmaking fanmeeting fanmix fanne fanner fannish fanon fanout fanpage fanpetal fanpire fans are slans fanservice fanship fansign fansigning fansite fanskate fanslation fanslator fanspeak fansplain fanstuff fansub fantagonism fantailed fantard fantrepreneur fantroll fanventure fanvid fanwank fanwankery fanware fanwear fanweed fanwise fanwork fanwort fanwright fanwriter fanwriting fanzine fanzone femfan femme fan fringefan furfan hit the fan i-fan ifan litfan lolfan mediafan megafan neofan nonfan passifan pony fan railfan red-fan parrot refan sports fan stan stfan stfanzine superfan the shit hit the fan transfan trufan uberfan zinefan

Etymologically Related To

fancy fanny frances winnow

Has Part

blades

Context

baseball brewing maths metaphoric

Has Property

more useful with handle short for fanatic

Part Of (Holonyms)

fan base fandom

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

agitate compound deepen device enthusiast follower heighten intensify partisan partizan person pull remove shake strike out take take away take off withdraw

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Beatlemaniac Belieber Juggalette Juggalo Mameluke Mansonite Numanoid Rhenish fan alluvial fan case fan ceiling fan cooling fan desk fan dittohead dress fan ducted fan exhaust fan extractor fan fan of fiction fanboy fangirl fantard fart fan finger fan fire fan firefan for names of different fans hand fan megafan members of fan subcultures open fan otaku overhead fan pedestal fan propfan sea fan sports fan stan subfan submarine fan superfan tailfan tilt fan trash trifan trufan turbofan uberfan unducted fan walking fan wall fan winnowing fan

Type Of (IsA)

climate control device cooling device device electrical appliance electrical device electrical household appliance follower person river somone wno likes team

Manner Of

intensify shake strike out

Part Of

cooling system

Receives Action

used in summer

Related Terms

Beatlemania T'u-lu-fan addict fan-ch'ieh fan-tan groupie thumbing

Related Terms

admirer aficionado air air conditioner air cooler appliance baseball baseball crowd behind blade blades blades cool blow blowing blowing air blowing device blows branch breeze chaff concertina conditioner cool cooler cooling cooling blades cooling device cooling machine cooling method cooling propeller cooling system crowd device diminutive direction electronic fins fond for cooling frances grain hand held hot hot places houses invigorate machine method move overhead overhead cooler peacock performer places propeller room sail sector slap smock windmill spinning spinning blade spinning blades sport sports sports watcher spread supporter system tail team team supporter tree turning turning blades vane watcher wind winnow

Synonym Network

sports fan winnow

Used For

aerate blowing air circulate air circulating air clearing bathroom of smells clearing kitchen of smells cool bowl of rice cool off cool people cool people down cool room cool yourself cooling air cooling off generating breeze increasing comfort make yourself cooler making people cooler making place cooler making wind moving air removing odors staying cool on hot days vacating fumes

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.