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Webster 1913 Edition

Wan

Wan

,
obs.
imp.
of
Win
.
Won.
Chaucer.

Wan

,
Adj.
[AS.
wann
,
wonn
,
wan
,
won
, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from
winnan
to labor, strive. See
Win
.]
Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
“Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.”
Spenser.
My color . . . [is]
wan
and of a leaden hue.
Chaucer.
Why so pale and
wan
, fond lover?
Suckling.
With the
wan
moon overhead.
Longfellow.

Wan

,
Noun.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
[R.]
Tinged with
wan
from lack of sleep.
Tennyson.

Wan

,
Verb.
I.
To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks.
“All his visage wanned.”
Shak.
And ever he mutter’d and madden'd, and ever
wann'd
with despair.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Wan

WAN

,
Adj.
Pale; having a sickly hue; languid of look.
Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

WAN

, for won; pret. of win.

Definition 2024

wán

wán

See also: wan, WAN, wàn, wān, wǎn, wan-, -wan, and Appendix:Variations of "wan"

Mandarin

Romanization

wán (Zhuyin ㄨㄢˊ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 丸
  2. Pinyin transcription of 刓
  3. Pinyin transcription of 完
  4. Pinyin transcription of 抏
  5. Pinyin transcription of 捑
  6. Pinyin transcription of 杪
  7. Pinyin transcription of 汍
  8. Pinyin transcription of 烷
  9. Pinyin transcription of 玩
  10. Pinyin transcription of 刓
  11. Pinyin transcription of 紈
  12. Pinyin transcription of 纨
  13. Pinyin transcription of 芄
  14. Pinyin transcription of 頑, 顽
  15. Pinyin transcription of 䵥

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