slan
/slæn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The idea of a national government, covering all the slan race and nobody else, is seen in the many drives for a general fan organization."
- "Here, at least once a month, the slans from Michigan gathered for sneak previews of forthcoming WARPS, to criticise some Rappian manuscript which Art was polishing for pro submission, or to talk about various subjects as fans are wont to do, and drink beer, pop, consume beans, dogs, chips, or eclairs."
- "Fen gather in clubhouses called slanshacks, "slan" meaning a biologically mutated superman."
Etymology
From Slan (1940) by A. E. van Vogt, a science fiction novel about persecuted—yet physically, mentally and morally superior—telepathic mutant humans. In the novel they are named after their alleged creator, Samuel Lann.