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Word entry · 3 letters

nan

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"Flatbread"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /næn/Part of speech nounSorted annStarts with NEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop

Word origin

From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.

Used in a sentence

  • We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.
  • Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.
  • My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies, / Finely attired in a robe of white.

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