Wan Definition

wŏn

wanned, wanner, wannest, wans

adjective

wanner, wannest

Sickly pale; pallid.

A wan complexion.

Webster's New World

Faint or weak in a way suggestive of sickness or great weariness, sadness, etc.

A wan smile.

Webster's New World

Pale, dim, faint, etc.

A wan light.

Webster's New World

Bland, uninterested.

A wan expression.

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verb

wanned, wans

To become pale.

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Win.

Webster's New World

To make or become sickly pale.

Webster's New World

(obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of win.

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noun

Wide area network: a computer network of geographically distant computers, terminals, etc.

Webster's New World

The quality of being wan; wanness.

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wide area network

prefix

(no longer productive except in Scotland) Preceding nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘bad, un-’

Examples: wanhope, wanrest.

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Other Word Forms of Wan

Noun

Singular:

wan

Plural:

wans

Adjective

Base Form:

wan

Comparative:

wanner

Superlative:

wannest

Origin of Wan

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.

From Wiktionary
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)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Inflected forms.

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