an
Part of speech: article
noun
prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-West Germanic *ain
Old English ān
Middle English an
English an
From Middle English an, from Old English ān (“a, an”, literally “one”). More at one.
Inflected forms:
form: ans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Form of a (all article senses).
pos: article
tags: indefinite
examples: I'll be there in half an hour.
'E's staying at an 'otel. (compare He's staying at a hotel.)
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
I was catapulted without preparation into the most difficult job any mortal man can hold. My duties would not wait a week, or a day, or even an hour.
gloss: Form of a (all article senses).
pos: article
tags: indefinite
examples: 1 I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto me, and heard my crie.
2 He brought me vp also out of an horrible pit, out of the mirie clay, and set my feete vpon a rock, and established my goings.
The Province of Nanking, by the Tartars called Kiangnan, is the ſecond in honour, in magnitude and fertility in all China : It is divided into 14 great Territories, having Cities and Towns an hundred and ten; Nanking, or Kiangning being the Metropolis; a City, that if ſhe did not exceed moſt Cities on the Earth in bigneſs and beauty, yet ſhe was inferior to few, for her Pagodes, her Temples, her Porcelane Towers, her Palaces and Triumphal Arches. Fungiang, Sucheu, Sunkiang, Leucheu, Hoaigan, Ganking, Ningue, Hoeicheu, are alſo eminent places, and of great Note and Trade.
Following the doctrine of Lenin and Stalin, relying on the support of the great Soviet state and all the revolutionary forces of all countries, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese people gained an historic victory a few years ago.
We have agreed on joint ventures in space. We have agreed on ways of working together to protect the environment, to advance health, to cooperate in science and technology. We have agreed on means of preventing incidents at sea. We have established a commission to expand trade between our two nations. Most important, we have taken an historic first step in the limitation of nuclear strategic arms.
Well yesterday was an historic day. Uh, there was last minute testimony scheduled in the January 6th committee from a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.
This is an historic honor which matches the weight of our times.
gloss: Form of a (all article senses).
pos: article
tags: indefinite
rare
examples: God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
My hopes, from my earliest years, have been hopes of celebrity as a writer- not of wealth, or of influence, or of accomplishing any of the thousand aims which furnish the great bulk of mankind with motives. You will laugh at me. There is something so emphatically shadowy and unreal in the object of this ambition, that even the full attainment of its provokes a smile. For who does not know
'How vain that second life in others' breath,
The estate which wits inherit after death!'
And what can be more fraught with the ludicrous than an union of this shadowy ambition with mediocre parts and attainments! But I digress.
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France is open to an European monetary fund but would want it to raise money cheaply on capital markets and lend it to needy euro-zone countries before they faced possible default.
In an unanimous vote on Monday, the city’s school board approved removing the name of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from Forrest Hill Academy and calling the alternative school the Hank Aaron New Beginnings Academy.
Having been given seven full days, Jack Smith took exactly one day to file a forty-page response in opposition, to the Supreme Court, making the argument that there was no reason for the Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump's appeal of an unanimous opinion by the second most important court in the country, the Washington, D.C., Federal Court of Appeals, which supported the trial judge's ruling that there is no such thing as immunity from criminal prosecution for former presidents.
gloss: Form of a (all article senses).
pos: article
tags: UK
West-Country
indefinite
nonstandard
gloss: The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri).
pos: noun
gloss: In each; to or for each; per.
pos: prep
examples: I was only going twenty miles an hour.
Derived words: another
Translations:
lang: Afar
word: hal
lang: Afrikaans
word: 'n
lang: Albanian
word: një
lang: Aragonese
word: un
lang: Aragonese
word: una
lang: Armenian
word: մը
roman: mə
lang: Armenian
word: մըն
roman: mən
lang: Asturian
word: un
lang: Asturian
word: una
lang: Bakhtiari
word: یه
roman: ya
lang: Bakhtiari
word: یه -ی
lang: Bashkir
word: often not used
lang: Bashkir
word: бер
roman: ber
lang: Basque
word: bat
lang: Belizean Creole
word: wahn
lang: Belizean Creole
word: ahn
lang: Breton
word: un
lang: Breton
word: ul
lang: Breton
word: ur
lang: Catalan
word: un
lang: Catalan
word: una
lang: Danish
word: en
lang: Danish
word: et
lang: Dutch
word: een
lang: Faroese
word: ein
lang: Faroese
word: eitt
lang: Fijian
word: e dua na
lang: French
word: un
lang: French
word: une
lang: West-Frisian
word: in
lang: Friulian
word: un
lang: Friulian
word: une
lang: Galician
word: un
lang: Galician
word: unha
lang: Georgian
word: ერთ-ერთი
roman: ert-erti
lang: German
word: ein
lang: German
word: eine
lang: German
word: en
lang: German
word: e
lang: German
word: es
lang: East Central German
word: aa
lang: Greek
word: ένας
roman: énas
lang: Greek
word: μια
roman: mia
lang: Haitian Creole
word: yon
lang: Hawaiian
word: he
lang: Hebrew
word: אחד
roman: ekhád
lang: Hindi
word: एक
roman: ek
lang: Huave
word: nop
lang: Hungarian
word: egy
lang: Indonesian
word: sebuah
lang: Indonesian
word: seorang
lang: Interlingua
word: un
lang: Istriot
word: oûn
lang: Istriot
word: oûna
lang: Italian
word: un
lang: Italian
word: uno
lang: Italian
word: una
lang: Italian
word: un'
lang: Kannada
word: ಒಂದು
roman: ondu
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: yek
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: -ek
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: -yek
lang: Latin
word: unus
lang: Ligurian
word: un
lang: Ligurian
word: 'n
lang: Ligurian
word: ùnn-a
lang: Ligurian
word: 'na
lang: Limburgish
word: 'n
lang: Limburgish
word: ene
lang: Limburgish
word: e
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: un
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: in
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: unn
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: ènn
lang: Low German
word: een
lang: Low German
word: en
lang: Low German
word: ein
lang: Luxembourgish
word: eng
lang: Māori
word: he
lang: Middle English
word: a
lang: Middle English
word: an
lang: Mirandese
word: un
lang: Mirandese
word: ũa
lang: Mòcheno
word: a m and f and
lang: Mòcheno
word: an
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: en
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ei
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: et
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ein
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ei
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: eit
lang: Occitan
word: un
lang: Occitan
word: una
lang: Occitan
word: ua
lang: O'odham
word: g
lang: Pennsylvania German
word: en
lang: Dari
word: یک
roman: yak
lang: Dari
word: ـی
roman: -ē
lang: Dari
word: یه
roman: ya
lang: Iranian Persian
word: یک
roman: yek
lang: Iranian Persian
word: -ی
lang: Iranian Persian
word: یک -ی
roman: yek -i
lang: Iranian Persian
word: یه
roman: ye
lang: Iranian Persian
word: یه -ی
lang: Portuguese
word: um
lang: Portuguese
word: uma
lang: Romani
word: jekh
lang: Romanian
word: un
lang: Romanian
word: o
lang: Spanish
word: un
lang: Spanish
word: una
lang: Swedish
word: en
lang: Swedish
word: ett
lang: Tagalog
word: isang
lang: Tamil
word: ஒரு
roman: oru
lang: Tamil
word: ஒன்று
roman: oṉṟu
lang: Telugu
word: ఒక
roman: oka
lang: Thai
word: หนึ่ง
roman: nʉ̀ng
lang: Tok Pisin
word: wanpela
lang: Turkish
word: bir
lang: Turkish
word: bi'
lang: Turkish
word: bi
lang: Tz'utujil
word: jun
lang: Volapük
word: un
lang: Volapük
word: hiun
lang: Volapük
word: jiun
lang: Walloon
word: on
lang: Walloon
word: ene
lang: Walloon
word: èn
lang: Wolof
word: ab
lang: Yiddish
word: אַ
roman: a
lang: Yiddish
word: אַן
roman: an