Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Dan

Dan

(dăn)
,
Noun.
[OE.
dan
,
danz
, OF.
danz
(prop. only nom.),
dan
, master, fr. L.
dominus
. See
Dame
.]
A title of honor equivalent to master, or sir.
[Obs.]
Old
Dan
Geoffry, in gently spright
The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
Spenser.
What time
Dan
Abraham left the Chaldee land.
Thomson.

Dan

,
Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Mining)
A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dan

DAN

,
Noun.
A title of honor equivalent to master; used by Shakspeare, Prior, &c., but now obsolete.

Definition 2024


dàn

dàn

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dan"

Mandarin

Romanization

dàn (Zhuyin ㄉㄢˋ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of
  2. Pinyin transcription of
  3. Pinyin transcription of
  4. Pinyin transcription of
  5. Pinyin transcription of
  6. Pinyin transcription of
  7. Pinyin transcription of
  8. Pinyin transcription of
  9. Pinyin transcription of
  10. Pinyin transcription of
  11. Pinyin transcription of
  12. Pinyin transcription of
  13. Pinyin transcription of
  14. Pinyin transcription of
  15. Pinyin transcription of ,
  16. Pinyin transcription of
  17. Pinyin transcription of
  18. Pinyin transcription of
  19. Pinyin transcription of
  20. Pinyin transcription of
  21. Pinyin transcription of
  22. Pinyin transcription of
  23. Pinyin transcription of
  24. Pinyin transcription of
  25. Pinyin transcription of
  26. Pinyin transcription of
  27. Pinyin transcription of
  28. Pinyin transcription of
  29. Pinyin transcription of
  30. Pinyin transcription of
  31. Pinyin transcription of
  32. Pinyin transcription of ,
  33. Pinyin transcription of
  34. Pinyin transcription of
  35. Pinyin transcription of
  36. Pinyin transcription of
  37. Pinyin transcription of
  38. Pinyin transcription of
  39. Pinyin transcription of
  40. Pinyin transcription of
  41. Pinyin transcription of
  42. Pinyin transcription of
  43. Pinyin transcription of
  44. Pinyin transcription of
  45. Pinyin transcription of
  46. Pinyin transcription of
  47. Pinyin transcription of
  48. Pinyin transcription of
  49. Pinyin transcription of
  50. Pinyin transcription of
  51. Pinyin transcription of
  52. Pinyin transcription of
  53. Pinyin transcription of ,
  54. Pinyin transcription of
  55. Pinyin transcription of
  56. Pinyin transcription of
  57. Pinyin transcription of
  58. Pinyin transcription of
  59. Pinyin transcription of
  60. Pinyin transcription of
  61. Pinyin transcription of

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd̥aːn/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dán m (gift, bestowal, endowment, present; skill in applying the principles of a special science; science; skill applied to the material or subject-matter of art; artistic faculty, art; especially the poetic faculty; the art of poetry; poem, song, verse, rhyme; an industrial pursuit of a skilled nature; a craft, trade, business, office, calling, profession; a profession as represented by its practisers collectively, the members of a trade as a body; an occupation, function, business; an allotted task; a payment).

Noun

dàn m (genitive singular dàin, plural dàin or dàna or dàintean)

  1. destiny, fate; decree, predestination
  2. poem, song; verse
  3. treasure
  4. work
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

dàn

  1. bold, daring, intrepid, resolute
  2. confident, audacious, presumptuous, forward, impudent

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • dán” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

dàn

  1. to put in order, to arrange
  2. to display