English Explanatory Dictionary

an

English dictionary entry

Meanings

article
  1. Form of a (all article senses).
  2. Used before a vowel sound.
  3. Used before /h/ in a stressed or unstressed syllable.
  4. Used before one and words with initial ⟨u⟩, ⟨eu⟩ when pronounced /ju/.
  5. Used before all consonants.
num
  1. one
conj
  1. If
  2. So long as.
  3. As if; as though.
noun
  1. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
prep
  1. In each; to or for each; per.
noun
  1. A set of sizes for screw threads agreed upon and jointly used by the United States Army and Navy.
noun
  1. Initialism of author's note or authors' note.
  2. Initialism of antinatalism.
  3. Initialism of antinatalist.
name
  1. Initialism of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: a union territory of India.
name
  1. Alternative form of Anu.

Pronunciation

/ˈæn/ [ˈæn] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-an.wav [ˈan] [ˈeən] [ˈɛən] en-us-an.ogg [ˈæ(ː)n] /ən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Pvanp7-an (unstressed).wav en-us-an-unstressed.ogg

Word forms

an ans

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English an English an From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.

Synonyms

per

Derived words

another ifs and ans

Translations

Afar: hal Afrikaans: 'n Albanian: një Aragonese: un Aragonese: una Armenian: մը Armenian: մըն Asturian: un Asturian: una Bakhtiari: یه Bakhtiari: یه -ی Bashkir: often not used Bashkir: бер Basque: bat Belizean Creole: wahn Belizean Creole: ahn Breton: un Breton: ul Breton: ur Catalan: un Catalan: una Danish: en Danish: et Dutch: een Faroese: ein Faroese: eitt Fijian: e dua na French: un French: une West-Frisian: in Friulian: un Friulian: une Galician: un Galician: unha Georgian: ერთ-ერთი German: ein German: eine German: en German: e German: es East Central German: aa Greek: ένας Greek: μια Haitian Creole: yon Hawaiian: he Hebrew: אחד Hindi: एक Huave: nop Hungarian: egy Indonesian: sebuah Indonesian: seorang Interlingua: un Istriot: oûn Istriot: oûna Italian: un Italian: uno Italian: una Italian: un' Kannada: ಒಂದು Northern Kurdish: yek Northern Kurdish: -ek Northern Kurdish: -yek Latin: unus Ligurian: un Ligurian: 'n Ligurian: ùnn-a Ligurian: 'na Limburgish: 'n Limburgish: ene Limburgish: e Louisiana Creole: un Louisiana Creole: in Louisiana Creole: unn Louisiana Creole: ènn
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