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sans

  [sanz; Fr. sahn]
Use sans in a Sentence
–preposition
without.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME < OF sans, earlier sens, seinz a conflation of L sine without, and absentiā in the absence of, abl. of absentia absence

Sans.

 
Sanskrit.

San

  [sahn]
–noun
a river in central Europe, flowing from the Carpathian Mountains in W Ukraine through SE Poland into the Vistula: battles 1914–15. ab. 280 mi. (450 km) long.

San

  [sahn]
–noun, plural Sans (especially collectively) San for 1.
1. a member of a nomadic, racially distinct, short-statured people of southern Africa.
2. any of more than a dozen related Khoisan languages spoken by the San.
Also called Bushman.
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San   (sän)   
n.   pl. San or Sans In both senses also called Bushman.
  1. A member of a traditionally nomadic hunting people of southwest Africa.
  2. Any of the Khoisan languages of the San.

[Nama : sa, to pick up from the ground, gather + -n, common gender pl. suff.]
sans   (sānz, säɴ)   
prep.  Without.

[Middle English, from Old French, blend of Latin sine, without and absentiā, in the absence of, ablative of absentia, absence, from absēns, absent-, present participle of abesse, to be away; see absent.]
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Sans

Sans\ (s[aum]n; E. s[a^]nz), prep. [F., from L. sine without.] Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word. "Sans fail." --Chaucer.

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. --Shak.
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Language Translation for : sans
Spanish: facultad,
German: die Fähigkeit,
Japanese: 機能
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SANS
small angle neutron scattering
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