Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Panama
  • abbreviation Panamanian

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Examples

  • J got confused when she saw the marquee, thinking they must still be showing Pan's Labyrinth, but didn't have room for the word Pan.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Jeff 2007

  • J got confused when she saw the marquee, thinking they must still be showing Pan's Labyrinth, but didn't have room for the word Pan.

    I haven't seen Stardust yet, but ... Jeff 2007

  • The "Holy Family," of the Pitti Gallery, has been restored, and suffers much from thick varnish and repainting, but nothing has spoilt the harmony of the colours, nor the tender beauty of the Virgin, whose features and expression are a repetition of those of Echo in the "Pan."

    Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

  • Still, Abe could manage to send a lie furder with that rattlin 'whisper than ole Tom could with that big horn o' hisn what tells the boys the revenoos air comin 'up Fryin' Pan. '

    Hell fer Sartain and Other Stories 1897

  • Still, Abe could manage to send a lie furder with that rattlin 'whisper than ole Tom could with that big horn o' hisn what tells the boys the revenoos air comin 'up Fryin' Pan. '

    Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories John Fox 1891

  • About the time when this song was written, there appears to have been some country minstrel or fiddler, who was well known by the sobriquet of 'Pan.'

    Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England Unknown 1833

  • "'May 27, Two bottles of beer, Pan., investigation -- $.50.'

    Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

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