WAN

wan

(adjective) lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; “a wan smile”

pale, pallid, wan

(adjective) abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; “the pallid face of the invalid”; “her wan face suddenly flushed”

pale, pallid, wan, sick

(adjective) (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; “the pale light of a half moon”; “a pale sun”; “the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street”; “a pallid sky”; “the pale (or wan) stars”; “the wan light of dawn”

wan

(verb) become pale and sickly

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Adjective

wan (comparative wanner, )

Pale, sickly-looking.

Synonym: Thesaurus:pallid

Dim, faint.

Bland, uninterested.

Noun

wan (uncountable)

The quality of being wan; wanness.

Etymology 2

Noun

wan (plural wans)

Eye dialect spelling of one.

(Ireland) A girl or woman.

Etymology 3

Verb

wan

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

Anagrams

• NWA, awn, naw

Proper noun

Wan (plural Wans)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wan is the 5911^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5831 individuals. Wan is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (89.97%) individuals.

Anagrams

• NWA, awn, naw

Noun

WAN (plural WANs)

(networking) Acronym of wide area network.

Antonyms

• LAN

Hypernyms

• LPWAN

Anagrams

• NWA, awn, naw

Source: Wiktionary

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Wan, obs. imp. of Win.

Definition: Won. Chaucer.

Wan (, a. Etym: [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. See Win.]

Definition: Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. "Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.

Wan, n.

Definition: The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.] Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. Tennyson.

Wan, v. i.

Definition: To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. "All his visage wanned." Shak. And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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