sans

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (3)  · 
“
The interview opens with shots of admiring press coverage of Yormark -- sans, of course, that

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. preposition Without.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • And as far as I can tell, everybody else sees only one of me--sans emu pistol, sans emu. —  F ;SF - vol 098 issue 04 - April 2000
  • [Pg 104] Hard names were not wanting either; Jefferson was ridiculed as a sans-culotte and red-legged Democrat. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Albert Gallatin, by John Austin Stevens.
  • After breaking up in 1995, the band regrouped -- sans Mendel, who had gone on to join Foo Fighters, a job he still holds -- for another pair of albums, most notably 1998's "How It Feels to Be Something On," before disbanding again in 2000. —  Top Stories from LiveDaily.com
  • But with the 111th Congress -- sans Gilchrest -- convening next Tuesday, the time has come for him to move to full-time green status. —  Blog updates
  • Friends stretched to feature length, and without the blessed relief of commercial breaks or the promise of L.A. Weekly's Joe Donnelly: '' Think The War of the Roses lite -- sans the emotional investment of watching a real partnership disintegrate into hell. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 196 times.

1 person has marked this word as a favorite.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English, from Old French, blend of Latin sine, without and absentiā, in the absence of, ablative of absentia, absence, from absēns, absent-, present participle of abesse, to be away; see absent.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Early modern English also sanse; from Middle English sans, also sanz, saun, from Old French sans, sains, seinz, senz, French sans = Provencal sens, senes, ses = Catalan sens = Old Spanish senes, sen, Spanish sin = Portuguese sem = Italian senza = Walloon sai, from Latin sine (Late Latin *sinis (?)) (also sometimes nesi, and without the negative se, sed), from si, Old Latin sei, if, + ne, not: see ne.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/sænz/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a month.

Recently looked up

dashing · physical · prohibitive · funhouse · disintegrate

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

eu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket