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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


wān

wān

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

Mandarin

Romanization

wān (Zhuyin ㄨㄢ)

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