dan
A rank of black belt in martial arts.
Noun
- A rank of black belt in martial arts.
Hyponyms: shodan
- Someone who has achieved a level of black belt.
Hyponyms: shodan
Origin
From Japanese 段 (dan).
Forms
Noun Entry 2
- Synonym of picul: a traditional unit of weight and mass, chiefly used as a dry measure of grains.
Synonyms: picul
- A traditional unit of equivalent volume, now officially equal to 100 liters.
Origin
From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 担 (dàn) and Chinese 石 (dàn).
Forms
Noun obsolete
- A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
- Dan Phoebus, he with many a low'ring look / Had her beheld in yore in angry wise. - 1578, George Gascoigne, “A Moonshine Banquet”, in A Hundred Sundry Flowers:
- Old Dan Geoffrey, in whose gentle spright / The pure well-head of Poesy did dwell. - 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, dan Cupid. - c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
Origin
From Middle English dan, daun, dam (“lord”), from Anglo-Norman daun, daunz and Old French dan, dam, from Latin dominus. Doublet of don.
Forms
Noun business, mining
- A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
Origin
Uncertain.
Forms
Related
Noun Entry 5
- A dan buoy.
- Carrying away of 25 great-lines, 3 dans, buoys, &c., of steam liner 'Star of the East'[…] - 1913, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers: 1909-1982, page 165:
- Dumping dans. Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground. They are fitted with a topmark in the shape of a St. Andrews cross formed by battens 2 feet in length. Live dan. Dan buoy for which a[…] - 1917, United States....
Forms
Preposition
- Pronunciation spelling of than.
- It's easy. It's nothin'. It's less dan nothin'. - 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
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