Stan

• IPA^(key): /stæn/

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• Rhymes: -æn

Clipping of Stanley.

Stan (countable and uncountable, plural Stans)

1. A municipality in southeast Slovenia.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Stanley.
   • 2010, Kate Atkinson, Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie), Random House, →ISBN, page 307:

     Stan Jessop taught at a different school now but lived in the same small 1930s semi-detached as he had done ten years ago. Stan made him sound like an old allotment guy but he was only thirty-six.

   • 2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Finally, there’s a Stan Lee fly, in honor of the late Marvel Comics visionary.

3. A diminutive of the male given name Stanislav.
4. A surname from Romanian.

Stan (plural Stans)

1. Alternative letter-case form of stan (a type of superfan)

From -stan.

Stan (plural Stans)

1. Alternative letter-case form of stan.

• Tans, nats, ants, ASNT, tans, Nats, Tsan, NATs, NTAs, Sant, Nast

Clipping of Stanislav.

Stan m (genitive/dative lui Stan)

1. a male given name
2. a surname