Wan Definition
(obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of win.
Wide area network: a computer network of geographically distant computers, terminals, etc.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
Other Word Forms of Wan
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Origin of Wan
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From Middle English wan-, from Old English wan- (prefix expressing privation or negation), from Proto-Germanic *wanaz (“lacking, missing, deficient”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)wAn-, *wān- (“empty”). Cognate with Dutch wan-, German Wahn-, Danish, Swedish and Icelandic van-, Gothic (wans, “lacking, deficient”). More at want.
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From Middle English, from Old English Æ¿ann (“dark, dusky"), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart"), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark").
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Middle English pale, gloomy from Old English wann gloomy, dark
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
w(ide) a(rea) n(etwork)
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Inflected forms.
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