Anglo-Norman.
Associate in Nursing.
(forming adjectives and nouns) belonging to or relating to; a person belonging to or coming from
European
(forming adjectives and nouns) typical of or resembling; a person typical of
Elizabethan
(forming adjectives and nouns) adhering to or following; an adherent of
Christian
(forming nouns) a person who specializes or is expert in
dietitian
phonetician
See a 1.
An was formerly often used before words that begin with h and are unstressed on the first syllable: an hotel ; an historic meeting . Sometimes the initial h was not pronounced. This usage is now becoming obsolete
before 950; Middle English; Old English ān one in a weakened sense
First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English, unstressed phonetic variant of and
< Greek. See a- 6, in- 3, un- 1
Middle English < Latin -ānus, -āna, -ānum; in some words replacing -ain, -en < Old French < Latin
From the Latin word annō
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Taco Bell has said it would remove and replace contaminated lettuce out of an abundance of caution.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
While she was still an undergrad, she interviewed professional athletes on her Instagram feed, then started an NBA podcast that hosted stars like the Knicks’ Jalen Brunson and Oklahoma City Thunder’s Chet Holmgren.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The restaurant said in an email that it wouldn’t buy any more until the outbreak ended.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Bring a friend and choose an activity that reminds you how miraculous life is.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Father Julien is giving Mass on board the Grant when the service is interrupted by an announcement.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
An active black hole can behave like a powerful cosmic engine.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
An entertaining left-handed batter, Sobers scored 365 not out against Pakistan in 1958 - an effort which stood as the record Test score for 36 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
An investor who shelled out around $1,500 for Apple stock back in early 2001 is sitting on a position worth nearly $2.2 million today, including dividends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
An announcement that the U.S. military had launched another round of strikes did appear to weigh on the market shortly before the closing bell on Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
An officer seated behind it stamped a paper and handed it to the woman in front of him.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
AutoNation AN -5.07%decrease; red down pointing triangle reported lower fourth-quarter revenue, weighed down by fewer comparable sales of both new and used vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Rajeev Kamal Kumar, an anthropologist at Patna's AN Sinha Institute of Social Sciences, who worked on a government study of prohibition, says both sides of the story are true.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
THE SDC IS AN international smorgasbord of ideas and inspiration, but it is not Ikea.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023
I have no idea if the figures in SBF’s Substack post are accurate; SBF himself labels them as “JUST AN ESTIMATE.”
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2023
They screamed up at the bleachers: “GIMME AN E!”
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
I just - I do have to say it’s an- it’s an absolutely great novel, and he was a great writer.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2023
For too many parents and their children, getting into a highly selective school isn’t just another challenge, just an- other goal.
From MSNBC ● Mar. 21, 2015
Brooks arrived at the restaurant along with Valerie Jamieson, an- other physics editor from New Scientist, who introduced herself with a melodic Scottish brogue.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 31, 2014
From top, the band Yuck was among those that appeared on the tour; Stephen Pope of Wavves, appropriately named, an- other cruise group; Lou Barlow, leaning back, playing with Sebadoh.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2012
Bast took an- other breath—sixteen—and braced himself against the moment he feared would come.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
That was what they sang for the next few months as they wound through college campuses and through the bus route from Saket -an old protestor's chant about azaadi, freedom.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2013
Director Clurman agrees: 'Julie hasn't developed what I call genius -an out-of-bounds personality.
From Time Magazine Archive
They bemoaned "a blood bath with no military objective" -an accusation belied, not only by the British photographs of the industrial damage but also by Commandant Fontaine's eyewitness account of it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dumas once summed up his own significance: "I carry with me wherever I go - I don't know how it is, but it is so -an atmosphere of life and stir which has become proverbial."
From Time Magazine Archive
‘In the end,’ he whispered, ‘he summons -an elemental.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
With the Symphony for the last two springs "Doc" Davison's singers have given Bach's great B Minor Mass. With the Vassar Glee Club in Poughkeepsie this spring they made an. evening of Brahms's German Requiem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brother Percy has the sage counsel of Brother Jesse Isidor, who returned to the U. S. for an. operation last month.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies in England last month.
From Time Magazine Archive
These he delivered in an anticlimactic five-minute broadcast an. hour later.
From Time Magazine Archive
"What an. extraordinary place this is," he said as he adjusted the maestro's violin to his chin.
From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
I put the turning point in the spring of 2009, when A.N.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
A couple of decades later, Gottlob Frege with his "Begriffsshrift" and then Bertrand Russell and A.N.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
In his decades since scouting, A.N. says he’s experienced severe emotional trauma, including “shame, humiliation and loss of enjoyment of life.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
Of its droll notational style — canny observations yoked to a stream-of-consciousness method — A.N.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2020
“But that was A.N. And I never liked it half as much as I like it with you.”
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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