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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On Friday, Fed Chair Kevin Warsh spoke at the annual Jackson Hole, Wyo., economic symposium, and opened the door to an interest-rate hike at the Fed’s next meeting in September, saying inflation is a concern.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
UNC billed the investigation as a way to evaluate claims through an “independent, impartial lens,” but it also retained a SCiLL critic as its expert consultant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
But outside linebacker Wesley Bailey, an undrafted free agent who played at Rutgers and Louisville, beat the odds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"That's what made us feel safe about all of it in an unsafe situation."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Mostly, though, the guerrillas are symbols of resistance, especially after Manila is declared an open city and the Americans no longer actively defend it.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
An enrollment boom after World War II prompted the university to set up an auxiliary residential campus 2 miles south of the main quad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
An observation that appears to reveal quantum gravity might, in some cases, also be explained without requiring gravity itself to behave quantum mechanically.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
An initiative of this magnitude could accelerate long-awaited economic recovery in Venezuela, a country still reeling from the brutal 80 percent contraction between 2014 and 2021 that plunged millions of Venezuelans into poverty.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
An appliance that melted rests on a counter in D&P Green, a pine resin distillery destroyed by the wildfire Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
An airplane landed and brought food for us and the other teams.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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
AutoNation AN -1.03%decrease; red down pointing triangle recorded higher third-quarter profit and sales as the company saw growth across all of its major categories, including new vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 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
This one is called AN •EYE*FOR* AN* EYE.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
I sniff my school uniform, smelling traces of smoke saturating it, too, mingled with an an- imal smell—the reek of guinea pigs.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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
That became even more of a certainty last week when the Swedish Academy bestowed on him the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature -an honor he didn't want.
From Time Magazine Archive
Director Clurman agrees: 'Julie hasn't developed what I call genius -an out-of-bounds personality.
From Time Magazine Archive
What the Bishops do have plenty of is "Bishopry" -an elusive but tensile esprit that makes them feel different, not to say unique.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘In the end,’ he whispered, ‘he summons -an elemental.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Although he is an effusive greeter, a vigorous handshaker and an. expert at the Indiana political massage,* he has a tendency toward bluntness.
From Time Magazine Archive
These he delivered in an anticlimactic five-minute broadcast an. hour later.
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
Eight or ten feet above and immediately behind the pulpit, is the organ loft, which is sufficiently capacious for an. organ and choir of the largest size.
From Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter by Alexander Clark Bullitt
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
While the phrase “a complicated man” clearly refers to Odysseus, it also neatly sums up this eminent classicist’s father, the 72-year-old English novelist and literary journalist A.N.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
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
“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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