ran

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
3
Words With Friends
4
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ɹæn/

Definition of ran

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (form-of, past)simple past of run
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verb

  1. (form-of, past)simple past of run
  2. (form-of, past)simple past of rin
  3. (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

  1. (uncountable)Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of radio access network (“the underlying physical connection method for a radio based communication network”).

name

  1. (Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Royal Australian Navy
  2. A male given name from Hebrew.
  3. A female given name from Japanese.
  4. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Hebrew רָן (ran).

Anagrams of ran

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2-letter words

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