"sagan" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sagans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sagan (plural sagans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Sagan"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics (Usenet):",
          "text": "Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar \"S\" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Edward S. Hudson, Alien Death Fleet, Pageant Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "\"There must be a sagan of them up there.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 January, Jon Luini, Allen Whitman, “Finding Your Geek”, in EQ, page 132:",
          "text": "There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 October 24, Joe \\\"Nuke Me Xemu\\\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet):",
          "text": "The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Sagan"
      ],
      "id": "en-sagan-en-noun-bTbysOFh",
      "links": [
        [
          "Sagan",
          "Sagan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sagan"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sagans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sagan (plural sagans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "Sagan"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics (Usenet):",
          "text": "Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar \"S\" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Edward S. Hudson, Alien Death Fleet, Pageant Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "\"There must be a sagan of them up there.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998 January, Jon Luini, Allen Whitman, “Finding Your Geek”, in EQ, page 132:",
          "text": "There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 October 24, Joe \\\"Nuke Me Xemu\\\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc (Usenet):",
          "text": "The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative letter-case form of Sagan"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Sagan",
          "Sagan#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sagan"
}