Synonyms:
fan
Meaning: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
Synonyms:
sports_fan, fan, rooter
Meaning: an enthusiastic devotee of sports
Synonyms:
fan, buff, devotee, lover
Meaning: an ardent follower and admirer
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
fan
Meaning: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
Synonyms:
fan
Meaning: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
Synonyms:
fan
Meaning: agitate the air
Usage examples
Fan Ch'i requested that he might learn something of husbandry.
"A man of little mind, that!" said the Master, when Fan Ch'i had gone out.
Her prettiness was still visible in the darkness; she was opening and closing her enormous fan.
Rena's letter had re-inflamed his smouldering passion; only opposition was needed to fan it to a white heat.
"She will talk to him all she can; but he doesn't like her to talk to him," said Miss Daisy, opening her fan.
“It was at Sherry’s; you were with Pickering—you dropped your fan and he picked it up, and you turned toward me for a moment.
The man sprang to a window and made his escape, but as the outside air rushed in through the opening he left, it seemed to fan the smoke instantly into flame.
He found her that evening in the garden, wandering about in the warm starlight like an indolent sylph, and swinging to and fro the largest fan he had ever beheld.
After all the others had gathered round the card tables, and young Duval had been warned by Prudence, Marguerite descended the staircase with Varville; such a cloak, such a fan, such jewels--and her face!
Amid the day’s perplexities I started sometimes, thinking I heard her voice, her girlish laughter, or saw her again coming toward me down the stairs, or holding against the light her fan with its golden butterflies.