jan

/d͡ʒæn/

name 6noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

last, small

VERB + JAN

asks, cards, force, gave, including, leave, meeting, object

She asks Jan to help with the project next week.

JAN + NOUN

andy, buckley, coen, firstborn, frederic, koum, levinson, petter

Jan Coen was a Dutch trader who established the VOC's power in Indonesia.

PREP.

from, in, on, with

I bought a new jar of jam from the market on Saturday morning.

Definitions

name

Abbreviation of January.

A male given name from Dutch.

name

A male given name from Hebrew.

name

A female given name.

"Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan," cried her friend.

She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the first month of the year

january

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was

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Chili’s has also enlisted several actors from “The Office” to star in the ads, including Melora Hardin (Jan Levinson), Andy Buckley (David Wallace), Brian Baumgartner (Kevin Malone) and Kate Flannery

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Jan Petter Vala is serving part of a 10-year murder sentence on a posh island in southern Norway.

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He cast out the demons of possessed persons, and he bound the jân, wellah, in yonder corner.

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There will be an in-person meeting of the marketing subcommittee on Tuesday afternoon of Jan 27, 1999 at the San Francisco CA Airport Marriott.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, jan is marked as dated, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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