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 (sän) n.
pl.San or Sans In both senses also called Bushman.
A member of a traditionally nomadic hunting people of southwest Africa.
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.]