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Sans.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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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San1 (sɑːn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an aboriginal people of southern Africa |
| 2. | a group of the Khoisan languages, spoken mostly by Bushmen |
| San2 (sɑːn) | |
| —n | |
| a river in E central Europe, rising in W Ukraine and flowing northwest across SE Poland to the Vistula River. Length: about 450 km (280 miles) | |
| sans (sænz) | |
| —prep | |
| an archaic word for without | |
| [C13: from Old French sanz, from Latin sine without, but probably also influenced by Latin absentiā in the absence of] | |
| Sans. or Sansk. | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| Sanskrit | |
| Sansk. or Sansk. | |
| —abbreviation for | |
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Word Origin & History
sans
early 14c., from Fr. sans, O.Fr. sen, sens (with adverbial genitive), cognate with Prov. senes, O.Catalan senes, O.Sp. sen (Sp. sin), O.It. sen, from V.L. *sene, from L. sine "without," from si ne "if not."
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Medical Dictionary
SAN abbr.
sinoatrial node
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American Heritage
Abbreviations & Acronyms
| san sanatorium |
SAN
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| SANS small angle neutron scattering |
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Rarely does something derail the nightly routine, although feverish kids have been known to be tucked in, sans story.
The kids paid eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each for the five days, sans travel or lodging.
The videos seen since were all sans audio and could have been made before then.
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