nan

UK /næn/ US /næn/

noun 9name 4

Definitions

noun

Synonym of maid: a servant girl.

Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual.

Synonym of nursemaid.

Synonym of grandmother.

We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

noun

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.

noun

radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter N.

Collocations

ADJ.

boiling, cold, golden, over, used

VERB + NAN

NAN + NOUN

christmas, grandad, grandad's, i'm, it's, kitchen, larder, leabhraichean

PREP.

from, in, with, with

ADV.

already, often

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India

naan

noun — the mother of your father or mother

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.

Wiktionary

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.

Wiktionary

My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies, / Finely attired in a robe of white.

Wiktionary

I had nan with tea for breakfast.

Tatoeba · #508114

Teochew is a dialect of Min Nan.

Tatoeba · #590065

They have nan.

Tatoeba · #3953992

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, nan is marked as obsolete, slang, UK, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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