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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Saturday’s game started 45 minutes after the National Weather Service issued an extreme heat warning as the temperature reached 100 degrees at first pitch at Dodger Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Everybody else who gets an ethics complaint or faces an ethics question faces fact-finding about it.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Britain remains an incredibly close ally of the US and there are still hundreds of American servicemen and women stationed at RAF Fairford, as well as at other bases at Mildenhall and Lakenheath.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Also working in Microsoft’s favor is its existing customer base, which gives it an advantage as it sells its AI tools to customers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
What doctors don't know in 1848, strep and staph do: that the broken head of Phineas is an ideal location to land.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
An abundance of panic is how others have seen it.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
An extraordinary 2,232 of them were chasing House seats.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
An “abundance movement” has formed around the idea that the country needs more, not less, energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
An analysis from Dow Jones Market Data bears this out.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026
“Reah and Vanessa are coming to crash at my place too. It’ll be great. An all-night gossip and Bachelor fest.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
AutoNation AN -6.67%decrease; down pointing triangle logged lower revenue after sales of new vehicles declined in the second quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
In her verdict, Judge AN Tse Ching relied in part on the messages exchanged after the encounter, according to the South China Morning Post, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
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
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
Director Clurman agrees: 'Julie hasn't developed what I call genius -an out-of-bounds personality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
‘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
Browsing among the classics of 19th Century fiction has lately proved an. inexpensive and richly rewarded occupation for Hollywood story departments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike most other raids in China, this one required a flight across treacherous mountains, through heavy weather, and an. approach over enemy-held Indo-China territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
These he delivered in an anticlimactic five-minute broadcast an. hour later.
From Time Magazine Archive
C, freshly opened flower, with the large petal-like sepals removed, × ½. p, petals. an. stamens. st. stigma.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
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
Looking back over the years, the self-critical, gimlet-eyed A.N.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
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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