nan
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Definition of nan
13 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (obsolete)Synonym of maid: a servant girl.
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noun
- (obsolete)Synonym of maid: a servant girl.
- (obsolete, slang)Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual.
- (UK, endearing)Synonym of nursemaid.
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(Australia, British, Canada, Ireland, endearing)Synonym of grandmother.
“We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.”
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of naan.
“Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.”
- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter N.
- (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of not a number, applied to numeric values that represent an undefined or unrepresentable value, such as zero divided by itself.
- NMDA antagonist neurotoxicity.
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of NaN (not a number)
name
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A diminutive of the female given name Ann and Nancy.
“My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies, / Finely attired in a robe of white.”
- A province of Thailand.
- The capital of Nan Province, Thailand.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of National Assembly of Nigeria.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.
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