gan

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Scrabble points
4
Words With Friends
6
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ɡæn/

Definition of gan

13 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (North, Northumbria, Yorkshire)To go.
    “The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".”
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verb

  1. (North, Northumbria, Yorkshire)To go.
    “The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".”
  2. (archaic, form-of, past)simple past of gin

name

  1. One of the major varieties of Chinese, spoken in Jiangxi province.
  2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Ngen (“dialect of the Beng language”).
  3. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  4. A number of islands in the Maldives.
  5. A number of islands in the Maldives.
  6. A number of islands in the Maldives.

noun

  1. (uncountable)gallium nitride.
  2. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of generative adversarial network.
    “The GAN we look at in the next exercise is a vanilla GAN with convolution.”
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of Great American Novel.
    “During that week of squall in March of that year Hem would talk till dawn about which son of a bitch who could spell cat was going to write the G.A.N.”
  4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of giant axonal neuropathy.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of good article nomination.

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Etymology

Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).

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