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dan | dahn |

As a noun dan

is a rank of black belt in martial arts.

As a proper noun Dan

is the fifth son of Jacob, whose mother was his wife's handmaid Bilhah.

As an adverb dahn is

eye dialect of down.

As a preposition dahn is

eye dialect of down.

dan

English

(dan rank)

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rank of black belt in martial arts
  • Someone who has achieved a level of black belt

    • Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

  • (obsolete)
  • * Spenser
    • Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
  • * Thomson
    • What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * * * * ----

    dahn

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Fritz August Voigt, title=Combed Out, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At the end o' the six paces yer cuts yer 'and away an' brings it smartly dahn ter yer side an' looks to yer front. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=David Christie Murray, title=VC -- A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He's got a kind of a way with him an' he sits dahn with the like of huz, and he talks to us as if we was men in place o' bein' cattle, which is the way with most on 'em. }}

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * 2007 , Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Faceless Fiend: The Faceless Fiend: Being the Tale of a Criminal Mastermind, His Masked Minions and a Princess with a Butter Knife, Involving Explosives and a Certain Amount of Pushing and Shoving, Book 2
  • *:“So, wot, people'd pay to throw you dahn the stairs? Dunno abaht that. People in these parts is used to throwing one another dahn stairs for free.