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Dan

1

[ dan ]

noun

    1. (in the Bible) a son of Jacob and Bilhah.
    2. one of the 12 tribes of ancient Israel, traditionally descended from him.
  1. the northernmost city of ancient Palestine.
  2. a male given name, form of Daniel.


Dan

2

[ dan ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. a title of honor equivalent to master or sir:

    Dan Chaucer.

dan

3

[ dahn, dan ]

noun

Martial Arts.
  1. a degree of expertise in karate, judo, tae kwon do, etc., usually signified by the wearing of a cloth belt of a particular color; level:

    a sixth-degree dan.

Dan.

4

abbreviation for

  1. Danish ( def 2 ). Also Dan

Dan.

1

abbreviation for

  1. Bible Daniel
  2. Danish
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Dan

2

/ æ /

noun

  1. an archaic title of honour, equivalent to Master or Sir

    Dan Chaucer

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dan

3

/ æ /

noun

  1. a small buoy used as a marker at sea Also calleddan buoy
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dan

4

/ æ /

noun

  1. any one of the 10 black-belt grades of proficiency
  2. a competitor entitled to dan grading
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Dan

5

/ æ /

noun

    1. the fourth son of Jacob (Genesis 30:1–6)
    2. the tribe descended from him
  1. a city in the northern territory of Canaan
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Dan1

1275–1325; Middle English < Old French danz < Medieval Latin domnus, contraction of Latin dominus “lord, master”

Origin of Dan2

First recorded in 1940–45; from Japanese, from Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese à “step, grade”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Dan1

C17: of unknown origin

Origin of Dan2

Japanese
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. from Dan to Beersheba, from one outermost extreme or limit to the other.
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Example Sentences

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Around the same time, three high-ranking Department of Defense officials — Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick, longtime Hegseth friend and confidante Dan Caldwell and the chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary, Colin Carroll — were first placed on leave, and then fired, amid an ongoing Pentagon leak investigation.

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StreetsLA, the city bureau responsible for maintaining streets and the urban forest, said its teams confirmed a total of six trees vandalized downtown this past weekend: three ficus, two sycamore and one Chinese elm, according to a statement from bureau director Dan Halden.

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The marquee reads “Frederick Wiseman’s Ballet & La Danse,” two real-world documentaries on the dance world by our greatest documentarian; the first, from 1995, looks at the American Ballet Theater and the second, from 2009, the Paris Opera Ballet, actual institutions whose shadows are cast on the wall of this comedy — with a dramatic turn or two — from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino.

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Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives previously slashed his price target for Tesla shares by more than 40% to $315 from $550.

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