stan

¹

[ stan ]

noun

1. an overly enthusiastic fan, especially of a celebrity.

verb (used without object)

1. to be an overly enthusiastic fan of someone or something:

   He's my fave rapper but I don't stan for him.

Stan

²

[ stan ]

noun

1. a male given name, form of Stanley.

-stan

³

Sometimes Disparaging.

1. a combining form used humorously to form mock place names, as in Canuckistan, a nickname for Canada, or Nerdistan, any place dominated by high-tech industry and therefore supposedly populated by nerds: sometimes suggesting isolation, backwardness, or lack of freedom.

Word History and Origins

Origin of stan¹

First recorded in 2005–10; blend of stalk(er) ( def ) + fan ²( def ), influenced by the rapper Eminem's 2000 song “Stan”

Origin of stan²

First recorded in 1955–60; from Persian -stân “place of (something), place abounding in (something),” akin to Sanskrit sthā́na “location, place”; stand ( def )

Example Sentences

Director Aaron Schimberg refuses to call it a fable — mainly because there is no moral in his moody, darkly comic tale about a man with a facial disfigurement who gets “reborn” into the conventionally handsome face of Sebastian Stan, only for his new life to take a cosmic nosedive.

From Los Angeles Times

Sebastian Stan plays a facially deformed actor who emerges from a miracle cure to realize he’s lost something deeper, in a movie co-starring Renate Reinsve.

From Los Angeles Times

Oscar-nominated makeup artist Mike Marino used groundbreaking prosthetics in collaboration with the actor Sebastian Stan for A24’s “A Different Man.”

From Los Angeles Times

“They are trying to take our rights away,” says Stan Lingman, who has both Māori and Swedish ancestry and is planning on attending the rally.

From BBC

Stan’s wife Pamela says she’s marching for her “mokos”, which means grandchildren in the Māori language.

From BBC