Fan

Quick meaning: Fan is a noun meaning An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.

Meaning

An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.

More Meanings

1. The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
2. Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
3. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
4. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
5. (card games) A group of overlapping cards exposed in various patience games.
6. (mathematics) A section of a tree having a finite number of branches.
7. A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.

Example Sentences

I attempted to fan the disagreeable odour out of the room.

We enjoyed standing at the edge of the cliff, being fanned by the wind.

He didn't switch on the fan because the temperature was 15 degrees Celsius.

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: […]

Word Forms

• fans
• fanning
• fanned

Synonyms for fan

Depending on context, synonyms include admirer, aficionado, buff, connoisseur, enthusiast, devotee.

Antonyms for fan

Common opposites include anti-fan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include winnow, buff, strike out, afficionado, lover, devotee.

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