gan

American  

[gan] / gæn /

verb

1. simple past tense of gin.

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gan ¹ British  

/ ɡæn /

verb

1. archaic the past tense of gin 3

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gan ² British  

/ ɡæn /

verb

1. dialect (intr) to go

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Etymology

Origin of gan

from Old English gangan; related to Old Norse ganga. See _gang ¹

Example Sentences

Along the way, I acquired some new words in Korean, like bangsaneung for radiation and gan for liver.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2023

Datganiad o gefnogaeth gan yr Urdd i ffoaduriaid Wcráin.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2022

Then there’s the city’s signature dish, hot dry noodles, or re gan mian.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2020

Then the cousin laughed and they gan bei-ed.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019

I read him most of chapter 1, up to the part where the young warrior Sohrab comes to his mother, Tahmineh, the princess of Samen- gan, and demands to know the identity of his father.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini