AN
\ˈɐn], \ˈɐn], \ˈɐ_n]\
Definitions of AN
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- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
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If; - a word used by old English authors.
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This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
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If; - a word used by old English authors.
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If.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One, or any; used for the article a before words beginning with a vowel sound.
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Pertaining to; used in nouns or adjectives denoting country, origin, race, etc.; as, Italian, amphibian.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Noting a single individual, but less emphatic than one; the indefinite article, put before nouns or adjs. in the sing. beginning with a vowel or the sound of a vowel-as, an egg, an honourable man.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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