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Dan
1[ dan ]
noun
- (in the Bible) a son of Jacob and Bilhah.
- one of the 12 tribes of ancient Israel, traditionally descended from him.
- the northernmost city of ancient Palestine.
- a male given name, form of Daniel.
Dan
2[ dan ]
noun
- a title of honor equivalent to master or sir:
Dan Chaucer.
dan
3[ dahn, dan ]
noun
- 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.
4abbreviation for
- Bible. Daniel ( def 1b ).
- Danish ( def 2 ). Also Dan
Dan.
1abbreviation for
- Bible Daniel
- Danish
Dan
2/ æ /
noun
- an archaic title of honour, equivalent to Master or Sir
Dan Chaucer
dan
3/ æ /
noun
- a small buoy used as a marker at sea Also calleddan buoy
dan
4/ æ /
noun
- any one of the 10 black-belt grades of proficiency
- a competitor entitled to dan grading
Dan
5/ æ /
noun
- the fourth son of Jacob (Genesis 30:1–6)
- the tribe descended from him
- a city in the northern territory of Canaan
Word History and Origins
Origin of Dan1
Origin of Dan2
Idioms and Phrases
- from Dan to Beersheba, from one outermost extreme or limit to the other.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino are back with a new Prime Video series that puts their love of ballet in the forefront.
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.
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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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