• IPA: /dæn/

dan

1. (obsolete) A title of honour similar to "master" or "father", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
   • 1578, George Gascoigne, "A Moonshine Banquet" in A Hundred Sundry Flowers:

     Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book VI, canto VII:

     Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell.

   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:

     This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid.

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence:

     The patriarchal age, / What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.

   • 1777, James Perry (journalist), The Electrical Eel; or, Gymnotus Electricus:

     He did—and in a moment press'd / The place—in Paradise the best, / As by Dan Moses said.

   • 1842, Alfed, Lord Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women:

     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.

   • 1846, Terence McMahon Hughes, The Biliad:

     Dan Neptune says that "ere a twelvemonth pass, / The Senate shall to Ireland go to grass."

   • 1962, A. D. Hope, The Ballad of Dan Homer:

     Oh, me' name is Dan Homer, I'm blind, as the Jews, / And I travels around with my head full av news.

dan (plural dans)

1. (mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

dan (plural dans)

1. A rank of black belt in martial arts

   hyponyms en

2. Someone who has achieved a level of black belt

   hyponyms en

dan (plural dans)

1. (units of measurement) Synonym of picul#English|picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass.

• enPR: Dăn, IPA: /dæn/

1. The fifth son of Jacob, whose mother was his wife's handmaid Bilhah and adopted by Rachel, who is the second wife of Jacob.
2. A male given name, derived from the son of Jacob.
3. A male given name & nickname, derived from the prophet Daniel.
4. Surname
5. One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Dan.
6. A former city occupied by the tribe
7. The Dan River, the principal tributary of the Jordan, named for the city

• Daniel

• Russian: Дан
• Spanish: Dan

dan (plural dans)

1. (obsolete) A title of respect: Sir, Master.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     Dan Chaucer, well of English vndefyled, / On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

1. A river in Shaanxi

dan (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) Acronym of deadenylating nuclease a protein that binds the 5' cap of mRNA and begins degradation in the 3' to 5' direction.
2. (space science, NASA) Acronym of w:Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons It is a scientific instrument of the Mars Science Laboratory onboard the Curiosity rover at Mars.