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Kan
A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
📖 Definitions of "Kan"
noun
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A ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages.
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An Ottoman sultan.
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A noble or man of rank in various Muslim countries of Central Asia, including Afghanistan.
noun
- 1
A caravanserai; a resting-place for a travelling caravan.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Kan"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| punoun | A surname from Chinese. |
| logisticsnoun | (operations) The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information from their point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of satisfying customer requirements. |
| crewmannoun | A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship. |
| coombenoun | A number of places in England: |
| summarynoun | Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form. |
| suffixnoun | (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning. |
| rootsnoun | Ancestry. |
| ableverb | Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task. |
| wasverb | (now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural. |
| yingnoun | A surname. |
| cannoun | (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to. |
| maynoun | (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests. |
| mightnoun | (auxiliary) simple past of may |
| gannoun | (Northumbria, North Yorkshire) To go. |
| willnoun | (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall. |
| pvdnoun | Initialism of physical vapor deposition. |
| qinnoun | (music) Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin. |
| chinnoun | The bottom of a face, (specifically) the typically jutting jawline below the mouth. |
| kansasnoun | A state of the midwest United States. Capital: Topeka. Largest city: Wichita. |
| janenoun | (colloquial) used as a placeholder name for any woman, especially a young working-class woman |
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