"slan" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From Slan (1940) by A. E. van Vogt, a science fiction novel about persecuted—yet physically, mentally and morally superior—telepathic mutant humans. In the novel they are named after their alleged creator, Samuel Lann.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "slan (plural slans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "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 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fans (people)",
          "orig": "en:Fans (people)",
          "parents": [
            "Fandom",
            "People",
            "Culture",
            "Human",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "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"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "fans are slans"
        },
        {
          "word": "slan center"
        },
        {
          "word": "slanhood"
        },
        {
          "word": "slannish"
        },
        {
          "word": "slanshack"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, John Bristol Speer, “F - Fascism”, in Fancyclopedia:",
          "text": "The idea of a national government, covering all the slan race and nobody else, is seen in the many drives for a general fan organization.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 September, Charles Stuart Metchette, “Michigan Memories”, in Spacewarp, number 42, pages 72–77:",
          "text": "Here, at least once a month, the slans from Michigan gathered for sneak previews of forthcoming WARPS, to criticise some Rappian manuscript which Art was polishing for pro submission, or to talk about various subjects as fans are wont to do, and drink beer, pop, consume beans, dogs, chips, or eclairs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Arthur Koestler, The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays, page 143:",
          "text": "Fen gather in clubhouses called slanshacks, \"slan\" meaning a biologically mutated superman.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fan of science fiction."
      ],
      "id": "en-slan-en-noun-E2oEWLsz",
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "fan",
          "fan"
        ],
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, fandom slang) A fan of science fiction."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Homo superior"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/slæn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æn"
    },
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  ],
  "word": "slan"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "fans are slans"
    },
    {
      "word": "slan center"
    },
    {
      "word": "slanhood"
    },
    {
      "word": "slannish"
    },
    {
      "word": "slanshack"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Slan (1940) by A. E. van Vogt, a science fiction novel about persecuted—yet physically, mentally and morally superior—telepathic mutant humans. In the novel they are named after their alleged creator, Samuel Lann.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "slans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Homo superior"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English fandom slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/æn",
        "Rhymes:English/æn/1 syllable",
        "en:Fans (people)",
        "en:Science fiction"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1944, John Bristol Speer, “F - Fascism”, in Fancyclopedia:",
          "text": "The idea of a national government, covering all the slan race and nobody else, is seen in the many drives for a general fan organization.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 September, Charles Stuart Metchette, “Michigan Memories”, in Spacewarp, number 42, pages 72–77:",
          "text": "Here, at least once a month, the slans from Michigan gathered for sneak previews of forthcoming WARPS, to criticise some Rappian manuscript which Art was polishing for pro submission, or to talk about various subjects as fans are wont to do, and drink beer, pop, consume beans, dogs, chips, or eclairs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955, Arthur Koestler, The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays, page 143:",
          "text": "Fen gather in clubhouses called slanshacks, \"slan\" meaning a biologically mutated superman.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fan of science fiction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fandom",
          "fandom"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "fan",
          "fan"
        ],
        [
          "science fiction",
          "science fiction"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, fandom slang) A fan of science fiction."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/slæn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æn"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "slan"
}