dan
/dæn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.51 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
Obsolete
noun
A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
noun
A rank of black belt in martial arts.
noun
Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
noun
Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
noun
A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
noun
A dan buoy.
prep
Pronunciation spelling of than.
Example Sentences
- "Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise."
- "Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell."
- "This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid."
- "The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land."
- "He did—and in a moment press'd / The place—in Paradise the best, / As by Dan Moses said."
- "Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath / Preluded those melodious bursts, that fill / The spacious times of great Elizabeth / With sounds that echo still."
Etymology
From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.