"USAN" meaning in English

See USAN in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: USANs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} USAN (plural USANs)
  1. Initialism of United States Adopted Name: a unique nonproprietary name assigned to a medication (pharmaceutical drug) marketed in the United States. Wikidata QID: Q4926095 Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: United States Adopted Name (extra: a unique nonproprietary name assigned to a medication (pharmaceutical drug) marketed in the United States) Hypernyms: generic name, name Coordinate_terms: INN, AAN, BAN, JAN
    Sense id: en-USAN-en-noun-en:Q4926095 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Pharmacy
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "USANs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "USAN (plural USANs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a unique nonproprietary name assigned to a medication (pharmaceutical drug) marketed in the United States",
          "word": "United States Adopted Name"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pharmacy",
          "orig": "en:Pharmacy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "INN"
        },
        {
          "word": "AAN"
        },
        {
          "word": "BAN"
        },
        {
          "word": "JAN"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of United States Adopted Name: a unique nonproprietary name assigned to a medication (pharmaceutical drug) marketed in the United States."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "generic name"
        },
        {
          "word": "name"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-USAN-en-noun-en:Q4926095",
      "links": [
        [
          "United States Adopted Name",
          "w:United States Adopted Name"
        ],
        [
          "nonproprietary",
          "nonproprietary"
        ],
        [
          "medication",
          "medication"
        ],
        [
          "pharmaceutical",
          "pharmaceutical#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:Q4926095"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q4926095"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "USAN"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "USANs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "USAN (plural USANs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a unique nonproprietary name assigned to a medication (pharmaceutical drug) marketed in the United States",
          "word": "United States Adopted Name"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English initialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Pharmacy"
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "INN"
        },
        {
          "word": "AAN"
        },
        {
          "word": "BAN"
        },
        {
          "word": "JAN"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of United States Adopted Name: a unique nonproprietary name assigned to a medication (pharmaceutical drug) marketed in the United States."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "generic name"
        },
        {
          "word": "name"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "United States Adopted Name",
          "w:United States Adopted Name"
        ],
        [
          "nonproprietary",
          "nonproprietary"
        ],
        [
          "medication",
          "medication"
        ],
        [
          "pharmaceutical",
          "pharmaceutical#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:Q4926095"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "wikidata": [
        "Q4926095"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "USAN"
}

Download raw JSONL data for USAN meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). 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.