Definitions for: Wan


[n] a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
[adj] lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"
[adj] abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"
[adj] (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"
[v] become pale and sickly



Webster (1913) Definition: Wan, obs. imp. of Win.
Won. --Chaucer.


Wan, a. [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid,
perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor,
strive. See Win.]
Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
``Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.'' --Spenser.

My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. --Chaucer.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover? --Suckling.

With the wan moon overhead. --Longfellow.


Wan, n.
The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.]

Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. --Tennyson.


Wan, v. i.
To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. ``All his
visage wanned.'' --Shak.

And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with
despair. --Tennyson.

Synonyms: colorless, colourless, pale, pallid, unanimated, weak, wide area network

See Also: come down, computer network, sicken

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