ran
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 3
- Words With Friends
- 4
- Letters
- 3
/ɹæn/
Definition of ran
9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, past)simple past of run
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verb
- (form-of, past)simple past of run
- (form-of, past)simple past of rin
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(colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past)past participle of run
“[…]rather to convince the Underſtanding, than to be eaſily capable of being anſwered ; excuſing your ſelf that you have ran into an Error, ſo foreign as you have declared from your Intention,[…]”
“" Heretics and schismatics, because they rebel against her, and only belong to the church, as deserters to an army from which they have ran away ;[…]”
“I’ve ran this event many times but in the year 2000, when we were running over the Bodmin Moor part of the course, it lashed down with large, freezing-cold hailstones.”
noun
- (uncountable)Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of radio access network (“the underlying physical connection method for a radio based communication network”).
name
- (Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Royal Australian Navy
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- A female given name from Japanese.
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Hebrew רָן (ran).
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