1. (noun)pan, cooking pan cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
2. (noun)Pan, goat god (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus
3. (noun)pan shallow container made of metal
4. (noun)Pan, genus Pan chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
5. (verb)pan make a sweeping movement
"The camera panned across the room"
6. (verb)pan, pan out, pan off wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
7. (verb)pan, tear apart, trash express a totally negative opinion of
"The critics panned the performance"