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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In an interview with Fox 5, Mary and Jerry Austin, Amy Voight’s parents, were trying to piece together what led to the tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
"So this came completely out of the blue, off effectively an allegation which must have been either malicious or mistaken."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
In doing so, Brightwell became the first British woman to win an Olympic gold on the track, in a time of two minutes 01.1 seconds.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He added: "I know they've done it with a florist before, and I think they've done it with an ice cream parlour before."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The microscope became a new kind of "high-tech" entertainment for cultured gentlemen, and in 1665 an Englishman named Robert Hooke came up with a microscopic "hit."
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
An AI that can probe for weaknesses on its own, analysts said, is a different kind of threat than a foreign website or a social-media post—one a wall can’t keep out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
An attempt to force a referendum on whether an elected mayor should be abolished has failed.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
An unofficial visit on campus a few months earlier had really resonated with them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
An appeals court refused to overrule the judge.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
An arm stretches over me to pass Glen a five-dollar bill.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
HIS DAD, AN ecologist and amateur photographer, instilled in his son the importance of pictures in engaging people in conservation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 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
By then the space traveler is weightless -an unearthly state in which he may do himself injury with normal movements of his own muscles.
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
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
‘In the end,’ he whispered, ‘he summons -an elemental.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies in England last month.
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
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
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
C, the column of the same, × 1. an. one of the two perfect stamens. st. sterile, petal-like stamen. gy.. 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
The pleated green tartan kilt Ms. Plath wore as a Smith College undergraduate, with blue-lettered name tape affixed to the waistband, swished home with A.N.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2018
“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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