English
san
see also: San, SAN, SAn
Noun

san (plural sans)

  1. A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ) that came after pi and before qoppa.
Translations
  • French: san
  • Italian: san
  • Spanish: san
Noun

san (plural sans)

  1. (dated, informal) A sanatorium.
    • 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 122:
      ‘I was in the san for ten months before the war. I know all the gen about being sick.’
    • 2005, Dan Soucoup, ‎Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)
      River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San" at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.
San
Noun
  1. Any of the foraging non-Bantu ethnic groups of southwestern Africa.
Synonyms Proper noun
  1. A river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
SAN
Noun
  1. (chemistry) Acronym of styrene-acrylonitrile resin
  2. (computing) Acronym of Storage Area Network
  3. (computing) Acronym of System Area Network
  4. (organic compound) Acronym of styrene-acrylonitrile or sytrene acrylonitrile copolymer
  5. (biology) Acronym of sinoatrial node
SAn
Noun

san (plural SAns)

  1. Abbreviation of South African#English|South African.


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