Definitions for wean
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wean, ablactateverb

   gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk

   "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"; "The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle"

2. weanverb

   detach the affections of

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To WEANverb

   Etymology: wenan , Saxon.

   1. To put from the breast; to ablactate.

   She was weaned when it did taste the wormwood on the nipple; pretty fool to see it fall out with the dug. William Shakespeare.

   I have behaved as a child that is weaned of his mother. Ps.

   In weaning young creatures, the best way is never to let them suck the paps at all; for then they will drink up milk without any difficulty. John Ray, on the Creation.

   A fortnight before you wean calves from milk, let water be mixed with it. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   2. To withdraw from any habit or desire.

   Here the place whose pleasant sight,
   From other shades have wean’d my wand’ring mind;
   Tell me what wants me here. Edmund Spenser.

   I the rather wean me from despair,
   For love of Edward’s offspring in my womb. William Shakespeare.

   Seriously reflect on the happy state he shall most certainly arrive to, if he but wean himself from these worldly impediments here that clog his soul’s flight. Digby.

   Children newly weaned from their parents, put out their hands towards them in their dreams, as if they were still present. Edward Stillingfleet.

   There the coarse cake, and homely husks of beans,
   From pamp’ring riot the young stomach weans. Dryden.

   They were intended by the Author of our being, to wean us gradually from our fondness of life, the nearer we approach to the end of it. Jonathan Swift.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wean

   WEAN-FM (99.7 MHz, "News Talk 99.7 FM & AM 630 WPRO") is a radio station licensed to Wakefield-Peacedale, Rhode Island. The station is owned by Cumulus Media, and airs a news-talk format. WEAN-FM is a full-time simulcast of WPRO (630 AM) in Providence, serving as WPRO's satellite in southern Rhode Island. Operations are based at WPRO's studios in East Providence. Prior to becoming WEAN-FM on March 11, 2008, 99.7 was modern rock "99.7 The Edge" WUAE, later WDGE; hard rock "99.7X" WXEX; classic rock simulcast "The Hawk"; 1980s music simulcast "Z100" (as WZRA) and finally "The Score" (WSKO-FM), which broadcast a sports format that simulcast most programming from WSKO (now WPRV).

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1. wean

   Wean refers to the process of gradually withdrawing the supply or dependence on something, often in the context of a mother detaching her infant from breastfeeding to introduce the child to adult food. It can also relate to separating oneself, or someone else, from activities or habits they have become accustomed or addicted to.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Weanadjective

   to accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment

2. Weanadjective

   hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything

3. Weannoun

   a weanling; a young child

4. Etymology: [OE. wenen, AS. wenian, wennan, to accustom; akin to D. wennen, G. gewhnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. vnja, Dan. vnne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. wenian to wean, G. entwhnen. See Wont, a.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wean

   wēn, v.t. to accustom to nourishment other than the mother's milk: to reconcile to the want of anything: to estrange the affections from any object or habit.—n. (wān) an infant, a child (Scot.).—ns. Wean′el (Spens.), a weanling; Wean′ing-brash, a severe form of diarrhœa, which supervenes, at times, on weaning.—adj. Wean′ling, newly weaned.—n. a child or animal newly weaned. [A.S. wenian; Ice. venja, Ger. gewöhnen, to accustom, ent-wöhnen, to disuse, to wean.]

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WEAN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wean is ranked #59742 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Wean surname appeared 338 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wean.
   
   93.4% or 316 total occurrences were White.
   3.5% or 12 total occurrences were Black.
   1.4% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Anagrams for wean »

1. wane

2. anew

How to pronounce wean?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wean in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wean in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of wean in a Sentence

1. Jiang Dalong:

   China is going to be the world’s biggest market for electric cars, china has no choice. They have to wean themselves from conventional gasoline combustion cars.

2. David Frank:

   The point is not really to devalue the stock, rather to make a statement to those companies, our students, and those who might be paying attention (including you!) that it is prudent to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels. It is a tactic, a means of calling attention to the problem.

3. Ben Scott-Robinson:

   Our system allows farmers to wean their depleted, damaged soils off a diet of chemicals.

4. Gavin Parry:

   Sharp has the technology to build out the components to compete with Samsung as an Apple supplier, which means that with Sharp under its umbrella Foxconn can help Apple wean itself off Samsung, this gives Foxconn better pricing power with Apple.

5. John Soto:

   They stay with their mothers until they're 5 months old, and then we'll wean them.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wean
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=wean
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wean
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wean
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=wean
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html