English dictionary: words starting with fan

Meanings of Fan:

noun

An apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation.

Usage examples:

A couple of ceiling fans, lazily turning

verb

Cool (someone or something) by waving an object to create a current of air.

Usage examples:

He fanned himself with his hat

adjective

A member of a people inhabiting parts of cameroon, equatorial guinea, and gabon.

Meanings of Fan-belt:

noun

A strip of material that moves round continuously to make a fan turn and keep an engine cool

Meanings of Fan-heater:

noun

An electrical device that blows heated air into a room

Meanings of Fan-out:

phrasal verb

To spread out over a wide area

Usage examples:

The police fanned out over the west side of the park.

Meanings of Fan-the-flames:

idiom

To make a dangerous or unpleasant mood or situation worse

Usage examples:

His speeches fanned the flames of racial tension.

Meanings of Fanakalo:

noun

A lingua franca developed and used by the southern african mining companies, composed of frequently corrupted elements of the nguni languages, english, and afrikaans.

Usage examples:

I know there's a huge debate around fanakalo as a language but mineworkers use it.

Meanings of Fanal:

noun

A lighthouse or beacon for guiding ships.

Meanings of Fanatic:

noun

A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.

Usage examples:

Religious fanatics

adjective

Filled with or expressing excessive zeal.

Usage examples:

His eyes had a fanatic iciness

Meanings of Fanatical:

adjective

Filled with excessive and single-minded zeal.

Usage examples:

Fanatical revolutionaries

Meanings of Fanatically:

adverb

In a way that shows that you are extremely interested in something, to a degree that some people find unreasonable

Usage examples:

The band has a fanatically loyal following., they have been competing fanatically for years., he at…

Meanings of Fanaticise:

verb

Cause to become fanatical.

Usage examples:

A culture which so fanaticizes its people is highly dangerous

Meanings of Fanaticised:

verb

Cause to become fanatical.

Usage examples:

A culture which so fanaticizes its people is highly dangerous

Meanings of Fanaticising:

verb

Cause to become fanatical.

Usage examples:

A culture which so fanaticizes its people is highly dangerous

Meanings of Fanaticism:

noun

The quality of being fanatical.

Usage examples:

The dangers of religious fanaticism

Meanings of Fanaticize:

verb

Cause to become fanatical.

Usage examples:

A culture which so fanaticizes its people is highly dangerous

Meanings of Fanaticized:

verb

Cause to become fanatical.

Usage examples:

A culture which so fanaticizes its people is highly dangerous

Meanings of Fanaticizing:

verb

Cause to become fanatical.

Usage examples:

A culture which so fanaticizes its people is highly dangerous

Meanings of Fanatics:

noun

A person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.

Usage examples:

Religious fanatics

adjective

Filled with or expressing excessive zeal.

Usage examples:

His eyes had a fanatic iciness

Meanings of Fanciable:

adjective

Sexually attractive.

Usage examples:

She was voted best female solo artist and the most fanciable female

Meanings of Fancied:

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

noun

A superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.

Usage examples:

This was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by

Meanings of Fancier:

noun

A connoisseur or enthusiast of something, especially someone who has a special interest in or breeds a particular animal.

Usage examples:

A pigeon fancier

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

Meanings of Fanciers:

noun

A connoisseur or enthusiast of something, especially someone who has a special interest in or breeds a particular animal.

Usage examples:

A pigeon fancier

Meanings of Fancies:

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

noun

A superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.

Usage examples:

This was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

Meanings of Fanciest:

adjective

Elaborate in structure or decoration.

Usage examples:

The furniture was very fancy

verb

Feel a desire or liking for.

Usage examples:

Do you fancy a drink?

noun

A superficial or transient feeling of liking or attraction.

Usage examples:

This was no passing fancy, but a feeling he would live by

Meanings of Fanciful:

adjective

Over-imaginative and unrealistic.

Usage examples:

Ever more fanciful proposals were raised