wan

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /wɒn/    美 /wɑn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being wan; wanness. uncountable
    — And while we stood beside the fount, and watch’d / Or seem’d to watch the dancing bubble, approach'd / Melissa, tinged with wan from lack of sleep, / Or sorrow, and glowing round her dewy eyes / The circled Iris of a night of tears ; [...]
  2. Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland and Glasgow English. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
  3. A girl or woman. Ireland
    — Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die.
动词 v.
  1. simple past of win. form-of,obsolete,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Pale, sickly-looking.
    — Whome when his Lady ſaw, to him ſhe ran / With haſty ioy : to ſee him made her glad, / And ſad to view his viſage pale and wan, / Who earſt in flowres of freſhest youth was clad.
  2. Dim, faint.
    — ’Twas so far away, that evil day when I prayed the Prince of Gloom / For the savage strength and the sullen length of life to work his doom. / Nor sign nor word had I seen or heard, and it happed so long ago; / My youth was gone and my memory wan, and I willed it even so.
  3. Bland, uninterested.
    — A wan expression

词形变化

wanner comparative wannest superlative wans plural

词汇关系

衍生词
green and wan wanly wanness wanthriven wanwood cubewano

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
词源 2
Eye dialect spelling of one. Sense 2 (“girl or woman”) possibly as a result of the phrase your wan as a counterpart to your man.
词源 3
An inflected form.
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