Pan Definition

păn
panned, panning, pans
noun
pans
Any of many kinds of containers, usually broad, shallow, without a cover, and made of metal, used for domestic purposes.
A frying pan, saucepan, dishpan.
Webster's New World
Any object or part shaped like a pan.
Webster's New World
A basin or depression in the earth, often containing mud or water.
American Heritage
The amount a pan will hold.
Webster's New World
Any area suggestive of a pan; esp., a hollow, natural or artificial depression in the ground.
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verb
panned, panning, pans
To wash gravel in a pan, searching for gold.
Webster's New World
To cook in a pan.
Webster's New World
To yield gold in this process.
Webster's New World
To criticize unfavorably, as in reviewing.
To pan a play.
Webster's New World
To wash (gravel, etc.) in a pan, as for separating gold.
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abbreviation
Panama.
Webster's New World
Panamanian.
American Heritage
Peroxyacetyl nitrate.
Webster's New World
prefix
All.
Panorama.
American Heritage
Involving all of or the union of a specified group.
Pan-Hellenic.
American Heritage
General; whole.
Panleukopenia.
American Heritage

A combining form meaning "all", used in the formation of compound words, particularly those that identify collections of all places in a region, cultures within a group, or religions.

Wiktionary
affix
All.
Panchromatic, pantheism.
Webster's New World
Of, comprising, embracing, or common to all or every.
Pan-American.
Webster's New World
The cooperation, unity, or union of all members of (a specified nationality, race, church, etc.)
Pan-Americanism.
Webster's New World
Whole, general; of all or many parts.
Panarteritis.
Webster's New World
adjective

(slang) Pansexual.

Wiktionary
idiom
pan out
  • to yield gold, as gravel, a mine, etc.
  • to turn out (as specified); transpire; esp., to turn out well; succeed
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pan

Noun

Singular:
pan
Plural:
pans

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pan

Origin of Pan

  • Middle English from Old English panne from West Germanic panna probably from Vulgar Latin patna from Latin patina shallow pan, platter from Greek patanē petə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old English panne, from Proto-Germanic *pannōn. Cognate with Dutch pan, German Pfanne.

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek from pan neuter of pās pant- all pant- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare French pan (“skirt, lappet"), Latin pannus (“a cloth, rag").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pan), neuter form of πᾶς (pas, “all, every”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin Pān from Greek

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Short for panorama or panoramic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From a clipped form of panorama.

    From Wiktionary

  • From pansexual by shortening.

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English. See pane.

    From Wiktionary

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