stan
noun
- administrative territorial entity
verb
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Pronunciation: /stæn/
name
Etymology: Clipping of Stanley.
- A municipality in southeast Slovenia.
- A diminutive of the male given name Stanley.
“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.”
“Finally, there’s a Stan Lee fly, in honor of the late Marvel Comics visionary.”
- A diminutive of the male given name Stanislav.
- A surname from Romanian.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English -stan English Stan From -stan.
- Alternative letter-case form of stan (country whose name ends with -stan)
verb
Etymology: From Stan (“Stanley”), after the song "Stan" by Eminem (2000), a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker + fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.
- To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).
“We stan a queen.”
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.”