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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Smith, 24, said in an Instagram video earlier this month that Whimsy was diagnosed with cancer late last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Pursuing an adaptation of this caliber feels like a losing battle, something a filmmaker does just to prove that they can.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The fire was covering an area of about six square kilometres.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Taco Bell has said it would remove and replace contaminated lettuce out of an abundance of caution.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Everything in it is an expression of the many facets of herself, including the sides of her that most people don’t see.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
An asteroid absorbs sunlight and later releases that energy as infrared radiation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
An opening round of 67 was followed by a second-round 69 on Friday to lift him right into the thick of the contenders.
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 explosion on the launch pad, as Blue Origin found out earlier this year, could be a much bigger problem.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
An automobile at a butchering like to take everybody’s mind off business.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
Balogh's ideas are an. odd mixture of common sense and doctrinaire Pestering.
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
M, the same, with the parts separated. p, petals. s, sepals. an. stamens. gy. pistil.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
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
The Spring Valley-Wesley Heights Citizens Association’s website states that Wesley Heights, one of the country’s first planned communities, was developed in the 1920s by W.C. and A.N.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 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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