Honan
noun
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- a variation of Henan.
Honan
American
[hoh-nan, hœ-nahn]
/ ˈhoʊˈnæn, ˈhœˈnɑn /
noun
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Wade-Giles. Henan.
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(usually lowercase)
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a pongee fabric made from the filaments of the wild silkworm.
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a lustrous fabric simulating pongee and woven from fibers other than silk.
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Honan
1
British
/ ˈhəʊˈnæn /
noun
honan
2
British
/ ˈhəʊˈnæn /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Honan
First recorded in 1880–85; named after Honan, where the fabric was first manufactued
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Honan said that she took the chip bag, thinking it to be a “light snack,” only to find it contained several hundred dollars.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2025
“Glass, and the other things like it, won’t always be ugly and awkward,” Mat Honan wrote in Wired in 2013, in a retrospective of a year of wearing the device.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024
Democratic polling and strategy group Honan Strategy Group is meanwhile trying to develop an AI survey bot.
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
Katie Honan, a reporter for The City, a nonprofit news outlet covering New York, said she was pleased by the change since the departure of the often tardy previous mayor, Bill de Blasio.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
From childhood grave and studious, he was taken in charge by an elder brother who had adopted the monastic life, in a convent at the royal city of Loyang in Honan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
He had already won Lady Spilsbury's heart by recommending to her the honan tcha, or Tartar tea, which enables the Tartars to digest raw flesh, and tinges water of a red colour.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Maria Edgeworth
Honan, self, is used with possessive pronouns as in English: ow honan, myself; dha honan, thyself, &c.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
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