"Stan" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /stæn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-Stan.wav Forms: Stans [plural]
Rhymes: -æn Etymology: Clipping of Stanley. Etymology templates: {{clip|en|Stanley}} Clipping of Stanley Head templates: {{en-prop|~|s}} Stan (countable and uncountable, plural Stans)
  1. A municipality in southeast Slovenia. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Municipalities of Slovenia, Places in Slovenia
    Sense id: en-Stan-en-name-QB2s0Wzb
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Stanley. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Stan-en-name-VRqGEG-i Categories (other): English diminutives of male given names, English given names, English male given names, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 15 14 19 15 4 17 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 14 13 17 20 4 16 9
  3. A diminutive of the male given name Stanislav. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Stan-en-name-kF1fkbVD Categories (other): English diminutives of male given names, English given names, English male given names, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 15 14 19 15 4 17 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 14 13 17 20 4 16 9
  4. A surname from Romanian. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Stan-en-name-aN9cPtvZ Categories (other): English surnames, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 15 14 19 15 4 17 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 14 13 17 20 4 16 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /stæn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-Stan.wav Forms: Stans [plural]
Rhymes: -æn Etymology: Clipping of Stanley. Etymology templates: {{clip|en|Stanley}} Clipping of Stanley Head templates: {{en-noun}} Stan (plural Stans)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of stan (a type of superfan) Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: stan (extra: a type of superfan)
    Sense id: en-Stan-en-noun-ExthyqvS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -stan, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 19 19 12 32 12 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -stan: 2 9 9 4 38 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 15 14 19 15 4 17 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 14 13 17 20 4 16 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /stæn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-Stan.wav Forms: Stans [plural]
Rhymes: -æn Etymology: From -stan. Etymology templates: {{af|en|-stan}} -stan Head templates: {{en-noun}} Stan (plural Stans)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of stan. Tags: alt-of Alternative form of: stan
    Sense id: en-Stan-en-noun-v-947VEs Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -stan Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -stan: 2 9 9 4 38 38
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.