San

¹

[sahn]

noun

plural

Sans ,

plural

San .

1. a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.

2. any of more than a dozen related Khoisan languages spoken by the San.

San

²

[sahn]

noun

1. a river in central Europe, flowing from the Carpathian Mountains in W Ukraine through SE Poland into the Vistula: battles 1914–15. About 280 miles (450 km) long.

-san

³

1. a suffix used in Japanese as a term of respect after names or titles.

   Suzuki-san; samurai-san.

San

¹

/ sɑːn /

noun

1. an aboriginal people of southern Africa

2. a group of the Khoisan languages, spoken mostly by Bushmen

San

²

/ sɑːn /

noun

1. a river in E central Europe, rising in W Ukraine and flowing northwest across SE Poland to the Vistula River. Length: about 450 km (280 miles)

san

³

/ sæn /

noun

1. old-fashioned,  short for sanatorium

Word History and Origins

Origin of San¹

< Japanese, contraction of -sama suffix denoting direction, appearance, respect

Example Sentences

It did respond on X after Retes wrote an op-ed last month in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, along with an international team, have discovered that ancient hominids, including early humans and great apes, came into contact with lead far earlier than previously believed -- up to two million years before modern humans began mining it.

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"We stopped using lead in our daily lives when we realized how toxic it is, but nobody had ever studied lead in prehistory," said corresponding author Alysson Muotri, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and cellular & molecular medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, associate director of the Archealization Center, and director of the Sanford Integrated Space Stem Cell Orbital Research Center.

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The opening ceremony will be held on February 6 at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy's economic capital which will be one of four clusters at the Olympics.

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But with the Games spread out over a huge area, from Milan in north-western Italy to Cortina d'Ampezzo some 260 kilometres to the north-east as the crow flies, many of the athletes will not be able to take part in the San Siro ceremony.

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