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Wan   /wɑn/   Listen
Wan

verb
1.
Become pale and sickly.
adjective
(compar. wanner; superl. wannest)
1.
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.  Synonyms: pale, pallid, sick.  "A pale sun" , "The late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street" , "A pallid sky" , "The pale (or wan) stars" , "The wan light of dawn"
2.
Abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress.  Synonyms: pale, pallid.  "Her wan face suddenly flushed"
3.
Lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness.
noun
1.
A computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network.  Synonym: wide area network.



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"Wan" Quotes from Famous Books



... my scarlet cloak on and drew the hood over my head, and it tumbled my hair," she said, with a little wan smile. Already the glamour of the wedding was giving way to the sorrow of parting. "I had my hat under my cloak. Oh, anwl! I am ...
— By Berwen Banks • Allen Raine
... strike down our ancient enemy of England, and show you men how it is not wine and wickedness that make good soldiers!" cried the girl whom he called Elliot, her face rose-red with anger; and from her eyes two blue rays of light shot straight to mine, so that I believe my face waxed wan, the ...
— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang
... looked round the ragged moor, brooding in the twilight, and half hesitated. Then she forced a wan little smile. ...
— Uncanny Tales • Various
... the hills and valleys with its voice. The night is stooping to the west, the day is rising from the east, the morning red is leaping from the clouds, the sun looks through. The moon quenches her light; now she is pale and wan, but erewhile with false glamours she dazzled all the sheep and turned them from their ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... a very seemilar case," broke in Snecky Hobart, shrilly. "Maist o' ye'll mind 'at Donal was michty plague't wi' a drucken wife. Ay, weel, wan day Bowie's man was carryin' a coffin past Donal's door, and Donal an' the wife was there. Says Donal, 'Put doon yer coffin, my man, an' tell's wha it's for.' The laddie rests the coffin on its end, an' says he, 'It's for Davie Fairbrother's ...
— Auld Licht Idylls • J. M. Barrie


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