alan — ozdic

Collocations

4

ADJ.

happy, light, novel, own, red, together

Alan was happy to finally finish his novel after working on it for two years.

VERB + ALAN

grabbed, like, listens, loves, name

My son listens to Alan's podcast every morning on his way to school.

ALAN + NOUN

adam's, atmosphere, beverl, beverley, garner's, jackson, jackson's, music

Alan Jackson performed his greatest hits at the country music festival last night.

PREP.

in, with

I was in a alan with my friend about which restaurant to choose.

Definitions

noun

1

Alternative form of alaunt.

name

1

A male given name from the Celtic languages.

He grabbed at Alan by his Adam's apple, And Alan grabbed him back in furious grapple And clenched his fist and bashed him on the nose.

I could pose as an artist all right; so I took the studio. Also the name of Alan Beverley. My own is Bill Bates. I had often wondered what it would feel like to be called by some name like Alan Beverley or Cyril Trevelyan.

2

A surname.

noun

1

A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.

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Example Bank

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01

He grabbed at Alan by his Adam's apple, And Alan grabbed him back in furious grapple And clenched his fist and bashed him on the nose.

Wiktionary

02

I could pose as an artist all right; so I took the studio. Also the name of Alan Beverley. My own is Bill Bates. I had often wondered what it would feel like to be called by some name like Alan Beverl

Wiktionary

03

Skyglow is a form of artificial light at night (ALAN) whereby the atmosphere scatters light back to Earth, creating a glowing dome of diffused light that can extend hundreds of kilometres into the sea

Wiktionary

04

I always thought that Shirley and Alan would get together.

Tatoeba · #53203

05

Alan Tate and I looked at one another for a while.

Tatoeba · #67378

06

I'm Alan Tate, Terry Tate's son.

Tatoeba · #253030

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, alan is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.