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  1. alan(Noun)

    A wolfhound.

  2. Alan(ProperNoun)

    A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.

  3. Origin: Celtic name borne by early Breton saints, of disputed origin and meaning; brought to England by Normans. As an early name, perhaps connected with ail, ‘noble’. It may have been the name of a Celtic deity, the brother of Bran, Welsh Alawn, Celtic Alun, ‘harmony’.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Alan(noun)

    a wolfhound


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area(noun)

the extent or size of a flat surface

This garden is twelve square metres in area.

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