stan

From Stan (“Stanley”), after the song Stan by Eminem (2000),[1] a fictitious account of the rapper's encounter with an overly obsessive fan named Stan. Sometimes assumed to be a blend of stalker +‎ fan, but perhaps simply chosen for the rhyme.[2]

• Stan

• (UK, North America) IPA^(key): /stæn/
• enPR: stăn
• Rhymes: -æn

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stan (plural stans)

1. (Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.

   IU stan

   K-pop stan

   • 2011, Vanessa Spates, "Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:

     I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans, […]

   • 2013, "Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:

     I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.

   • 2013, Jake Folsom, "Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News, Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:

     Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.

   • 2020 June 21, “TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally”, in New York Times‎:

     K-pop stans have been getting increasingly involved in American politics in recent months. After the Trump campaign solicited messages for the president’s birthday on June 8, K-pop stans submitted a stream of prank messages.

   • 2022 April 29, Ezra Marcus, “Johnny Depp Case Brings Stan Culture Into the Courtroom”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     “Stans will literally go to any extent to defend anyone,” he said of Mr. Depp’s supporters, adding: “Amber Heard, she has not got that fan base.”

• sasaeng (K-pop fandom)

• Stan Twitter
• stantwt

stan (third-person singular simple present stans, present participle stanning, simple past and past participle stanned)

1. (slang, transitive, intransitive) To act as a stan (for); to be an obsessive fan (of).

   We stan a queen.

   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

Back-formation from -stan.

• Stan, 'Stan, 'stan, -stan, -Stan

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stɑːn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /stæn/
• enPR: stän

stan (plural stans)

1. One of the stans; any of the ex-Soviet countries and their neighbours whose name ends with "-stan" such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.
   • 2015 July 30, Jules Boykoff, “Beijing and Almaty contest Winter Olympics in human rights nightmare”, in The Guardian‎:

     This is a stan with a plan. Unlike Uzbekistan […] .

• "Stan" fans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stan Twitter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ASNT, NTAs, Nast, Nats, Sant, Tans, Tsan, ants, nats, tans

From a South Slavic language, ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *stanъ (“lodging”). Compare Bulgarian стан (stan, “camp”), Serbo-Croatian stȃn (“apartment”);[1] non-Slavic cognates include Romanian stână and Greek στάνη (stáni).

• IPA^(key): /stan/

stan m (indefinite plural stane, definite singular stani, definite plural stanet)

1. A shepherd's hut.
2. A herd of sheep or other livestock.

• stanar, stanore

• tëbanë, bun

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈstan]
• Rhymes: -an

stan m inan

1. tent

• stanovat
• stanovit
• stánek
• stanoviště
• stanovy
• ustanovit
• ustanovení

• stan in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• stan in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

stan (plural stanes or stan)

1. Alternative form of stone

From Proto-West Germanic *stān.

stān

1. To stand.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• antstān
• bistān
• farstān

• Middle Dutch: stâen
  • Dutch: staan
    • Afrikaans: staan
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: tan
    • Jersey Dutch: stân
    • Negerhollands: staan, tan
    • → Biak: vestan
  • Limburgish: staon

• “stān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂no-, *stih₂-no- (a suffixed form of *steyh₂- (“to be solid, to crowd together”)).

Cognate with Old Frisian stēn, Old Saxon stēn (German Low German Steen), Old Dutch sten, stein (Dutch steen), Old High German stein (German Stein), Old Norse steinn (Icelandic steinn, Faroese steinur, Norwegian Nynorsk stein, Norwegian Bokmål stein, sten, Danish sten, Swedish sten), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (stains). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek στῖον (stîon, “pebble”), Proto-Slavic *stěnà (Bulgarian стена (stena), Russian стена́ (stená), Czech stěna (“wall”)).

• IPA^(key): /stɑːn/

stān m

1. stone

• Middle English: stan, stane, stayn, ston, stoan, stoon, stone
  • English: stone, styen (Northumbrian)
  • Scots: stane
  • Yola: sthoan

• standan

From Proto-West Germanic *stān.

stān

1. To stand.

• Middle Low German: stān
  • German Low German: stahn

Inherited from Old Polish stan, from Proto-Slavic *stanъ.

• IPA^(key): /stan/

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• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: stan

stan m inan

1. state (of affairs), condition
2. state (e.g., a political division of Australia or the United States)
3. (rare) state (sovereign polity)
4. waist (a part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist)

• stan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• stan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

stan n (plural stanuri)

1. Alternative form of stană

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, whence also stȁti (“to stand”), stȁviti (“to set, place”), stȁdo (“herd”) and stȏl (“table”).

• IPA^(key): /stâːn/
• Rhymes: -âːn

stȃn m (Cyrillic spelling ста̑н)

1. flat, apartment
2. loom (tkàlačkī stȃn)

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:stan.

• stàmbenī
• stànār
  • sȕstanār
    • sȕstanārka

• “stan” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *stanъ, whence also stáť (“to stand”), staviť (“to set, place”), stádo (“herd”) and stôl (“table”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈstan/
• Rhymes: -an

stan m (genitive singular stanu, nominative plural stany, genitive plural stanov, declension pattern of dub)

1. tent
2. (slang) erection, hard-on

• stan in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

• sta'n

Contraction of staden, the definite singular of stad.

stan

1. (colloquial) The town, the city.

   på stan

   downtown

• Stockholmers insist that stan always refers to Stockholm and no other cities. The phrase inte i stan (“not in the town”) to them means outside of Stockholm, but to other Swedes it means outside of any town, i.e., in the countryside.

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