name
Meaning 1
Any of the languages spoken by these people.
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Standard Lemma guide
san
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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rhymes with -æn
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsæn/
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[ˈseə̯n] ~ [ˈsɛə̯n] General American, Canada, æ-raising
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British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /ˈsan/
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Australian: /ˈsæːn/
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[ˈseːn] æ-raising
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New-Zealand: /ˈsɛn/
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CMU ARPABET: S AE1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
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name
Meaning 3
Initialism of Straight Arrow News.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Meaning 4
An Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ), originally used in some dialects instead of sigma.
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noun
Meaning 5
A sanatorium.
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Usage: dated, informal
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noun
Meaning 6
Any of the foraging non-Bantu ethnic groups of southwestern Africa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ethnic, offensive, plural, plural-only, regional, slur
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noun
Meaning 7
Acronym of storage area network.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 8
Acronym of system area network.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 9
Acronym of Subject Alternative Name.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: computer security
Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 10
Acronym of styrene-acrylonitrile resin.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 11
Acronym of styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer or sytrene acrylonitrile copolymer.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 12
Acronym of sinoatrial node.
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Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 13
Abbreviation of South African.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
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History
Etymology
As a synonym of Bushmen introduced into ethnology from the 1960s, from Khoekhoe saan (singular saa) "foragers; people without wealth", via back-formation from Khoisan. Occasional citation as the Nama term for "Bushmen" from the 1880s.
Borrowed from Polish San.
From Ancient Greek σάν (sán), from a Semitic language.
Shortening of sanatorium.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- German: San — river
- Marathi: सान (sān) — river
- Polish: San — river
- Ukrainian: Сян (Sjan) — river
- Catalan: san — letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet
- Esperanto: sano — letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet
- French: san — letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet
- Italian: san — letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet
- Sicilian: san — letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet
- Spanish: san — letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet