"actifan" meaning in English

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "passifan"
    }
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "active",
        "3": "fan"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of active + fan",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of active + fan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "actifans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "actifen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "actifan (plural actifans or actifen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        },
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        },
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fans (people)",
          "orig": "en:Fans (people)",
          "parents": [
            "Fandom",
            "People",
            "Culture",
            "Human",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Science fiction",
          "orig": "en:Science fiction",
          "parents": [
            "Fiction",
            "Speculative fiction",
            "Artistic works",
            "Genres",
            "Art",
            "Entertainment",
            "Culture",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947 January, Startling Stories, volume 14, number 3:",
          "text": "If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 Summer, Ted E. White, “The Vizigraph”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 11, page 92:",
          "text": "Really, I seem to have reversed things a little by being a letter-hack after becoming an actifan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph L. Sanders, Science Fiction Fandom, →ISBN, page 94:",
          "text": "Actifans end up feeling they're being forced to pay for other people's \"good time\" and realize the mere attendance of these other-media fans means they will have to pay (through increased membership fees) for things SF Worldcons once got for free.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity."
      ],
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        [
          "fandom",
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        ],
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          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "fanac",
          "fanac"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, fandom slang) A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "actifan"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "passifan"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "active",
        "3": "fan"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of active + fan",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of active + fan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "actifans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "actifen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
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      },
      "expansion": "actifan (plural actifans or actifen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English fandom slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Fans (people)",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947 January, Startling Stories, volume 14, number 3:",
          "text": "If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 Summer, Ted E. White, “The Vizigraph”, in Planet Stories, volume 6, number 11, page 92:",
          "text": "Really, I seem to have reversed things a little by being a letter-hack after becoming an actifan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph L. Sanders, Science Fiction Fandom, →ISBN, page 94:",
          "text": "Actifans end up feeling they're being forced to pay for other people's \"good time\" and realize the mere attendance of these other-media fans means they will have to pay (through increased membership fees) for things SF Worldcons once got for free.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
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        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "fanac",
          "fanac"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, fandom slang) A person, particularly a fan of science fiction, involved in fanac or fan activity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "actifan"
}