an

article

1. (indefinite)Form of a (all article senses).

   “I'll be there in half an hour.”

   “'E's staying at an 'otel. (compare He's staying at a hotel.)”

   “Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.”

   “I was catapulted without preparation into the most difficult job any mortal man can hold. My duties would not wait a week, or a day, or even an hour.”

2. (indefinite)Form of a (all article senses).

   “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.”

   “Following the doctrine of Lenin and Stalin, relying on the support of the great Soviet state and all the revolutionary forces of all countries, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people gained an historic victory a few years ago.”

   “We have agreed on joint ventures in space. We have agreed on ways of working together to protect the environment, to advance health, to cooperate in science and technology. We have agreed on means of preventing incidents at sea. We have established a commission to expand trade between our two nations. Most important, we have taken an historic first step in the limitation of nuclear strategic arms.”

   “Well yesterday was an historic day. Uh, there was last minute testimony scheduled in the January 6th committee from a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.”

3. (indefinite, rare)Form of a (all article senses).

   “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.”

   “President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is open to an European monetary fund but would want it to raise money cheaply on capital markets and lend it to needy euro-zone countries before they faced possible default.”

   “In an unanimous vote on Monday, the city’s school board approved removing the name of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from Forrest Hill Academy and calling the alternative school the Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy.”

   “Having been given seven full days, Jack Smith took exactly one day to file a forty-page response in opposition, to the Supreme Court, making the argument that there was no reason for the Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump's appeal of an unanimous opinion by the second most important court in the country, the Washington, D.C., Federal Court of Appeals, which supported the trial judge's ruling that there is no such thing as immunity from criminal prosecution for former presidents.”

4. (British, West-Country, indefinite, nonstandard)Form of a (all article senses).

num

1. (British, West-Country, nonstandard)one

conj

1. (archaic)If

   “[…] An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.”

   “Thereupon, quoth he, "O woman, for sundry days I have seen thee attend the levée sans a word said; so tell me an thou have any requirement I may grant."”

2. (archaic)So long as.

   “An it harm none, do what ye will.”

3. (archaic)As if; as though.

   “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.”

noun

1. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
2. (US, uncountable)A set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of author's note or authors' note.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of antinatalism.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of antinatalist.

prep

1. In each; to or for each; per.

   “I was only going twenty miles an hour.”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: a union territory of India.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Anu.