Shan
noun
a group of Mongoloid tribes in the hills of Myanmar (Burma).
Shans
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pluralof Shan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week in London the Burmans pointed to the west, north, and east borders of British Burma and claimed the country where the Chins, Shans, Kachins, Nagas, Was, and some Karens lived.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Throne of God is a vast mountain of the Tien Shans in Central Asia where Russia gnaws into China.
From Time Magazine Archive
Urge crown this achievement through speedy publication Punjabi and translation publication New Era Kachin Shans Malay Indonesian languages.
From Dawn of a New Day by Shoghi Effendi
What these people really are is one of the unsettled ethnological problems of the East, but probably they are of the same stock as the Shans and Burmese.
From A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
