apan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.62 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of apan.
Example Sentences
- "The greatest apan of all time lives on a quiet old street rising above Hagerstown, Maryland."
- "Most of the participants in the mundane apas are hobby printers—-and the disdain with which our fandom once viewed Xeroxing of fanzines is but a pale reflection of the way mundane apans have looked upon the mimeo and the ditto as a means of publishing "papers" (as they call their amateur publications)."
- "I immediately began a cutback. I remained an enthusiastic apan, but by the time I gafiated around 1976, I was in only one, FAPA."
- "The 19-year-old fresh-faced kid in the Browncoat costume talking about Harry Turtledove in the consuite is every bit as much a fan as the APAn cranking a mimeograph and pondering the right and wrong of the Breendoggle."
Etymology
Etymology tree English APA Middle English -n English -n English apan From APA (“amateur press association”) + -n (“of or pertaining to”).