ANS
- American Name Society.
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- the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
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Examples from the Web for ans
Contemporary Examples
ANS researchers found that all off-site health consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi accident may ultimately be negligible.
Abandoning the project now, ANS officials note, would make all that spending a colossal waste.
Historical Examples
Their fall released into German control the railway junction at Ans.
He's done a great play, and there are no ifs or ans about it.
The Story of a PlayW. D. Howells
Ans: An action brought in earnest, and not by way of a joke.
It was so sure enough: a Queen Ans sixpence of that very date.
Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. YellowplushWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
Abstract nouns are derived from verbs by the addition of ans.
A Handbook of the Cornish LanguageHenry Jenner
An1
- myth the Sumerian sky godBabylonian counterpart: Anu
An2
- actinon
AN
- Anglo-Norman
an1
- a form of the indefinite article used before an initial vowel soundan old car; an elf; an honour
Word Origin
usage
an2
an'
- (subordinating) an obsolete or dialect word for if See and (def. 9)
an3
- Netherlands Antilles
Word Origin and History for ans
an
indefinite article before words beginning with vowels, 12c., from Old English an (with a long vowel) "one; lone," also used as a prefix an- "single, lone;" see one for the divergence of that word from this. Also see a, of which this is the older, fuller form.
In other European languages, identity between indefinite article and the word for "one" remains explicit (e.g. French un, German ein, etc.) Old English got by without indefinite articles: He was a good man in Old English was he wæs god man. Circa 15c., a and an commonly were written as one word with the following noun, which contributed to the confusion over how such words as newt and umpire ought to be divided (see N).
In Shakespeare, etc., an sometimes is a contraction of as if (a usage first attested c.1300), especially before it.