Wan vs Pan - What's the difference?
wan | pan |
Pale, sickly-looking.
* Spenser
* Longfellow
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Dim, faint.
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Bland, uninterested.
The quality of being wan; wanness.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) (win)
As adjectives the difference between wan and pan
is that wan is pale, sickly-looking while pan is pansexual.As nouns the difference between wan and pan
is that wan is the quality of being wan; wanness while pan is a wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.As verbs the difference between wan and pan
is that wan is past tense of win while pan is to wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).As a proper noun Pan is
greek god of nature, often visualized as half goat and half man playing pipes. His Roman counterpart is Faunus.As an acronym PAN is
acronym of lang=en.wan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(wanner)- Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
- the wan moon overhead
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- A wan expression
Noun
(-)- Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.
