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Wiktionary

  1. sansadjective

    short for sans serif.

  2. sanspreposition

    Without, lacking.

  3. Etymology: sans, borrowed from sans, sens, from sine conflated with absens.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. SANSprep.

    Without. Out of use.

    Etymology: French.

    Last scene of all,
    That ends this strange eventful history,
    Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
    Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing. William Shakespeare.

    For nature so preposterously to err,
    Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,
    Sans witchcraft could not. William Shakespeare, Othello.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sans

    without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word

  2. Etymology: [F., from L. sine without.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sans

    sanz, prep. (Shak.) without, wanting.—n. Sans′-appel′, a person from whose decision there is no appeal.—Sans nombre (her.), repeated often, and covering the field; Sans souci, without care: free and easy. [O. Fr. sans, senz—L. sine, without.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SANS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sans is ranked #42640 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sans surname appeared 508 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sans.

    62.8% or 319 total occurrences were White.
    31.1% or 158 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.9% or 10 total occurrences were Black.
    1.9% or 10 total occurrences were Asian.

Anagrams for sans »

  1. Nass

  2. assn

  3. ass'n

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sans in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sans in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sans in a Sentence

  1. Hoyt Sherman:

    So the assumption was it was tucked away there either because it needed some repair work or the content, because it is a full backside nude of Venus de Milo and another cherub sans clothing.

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    Love is winning the war without starting the war. (L'amour, c'est gagner la guerre sans commencer la guerre)

  3. President Pierre Nkurunziza:

    Nous ne pouvons pas construire un #Burundi solide et solidaire sans nous pencher collectivement sur nos blessures respectives

  4. John Hudson:

    We wanted to create a humanist sans serif with generous proportions and a higher than usual stroke contrast( also known as the variation in weight between thick and thin parts of the letter).

  5. Charles de LEUSSE:

    Heaven without love : what a hell. (Paradis sans amour : voilà ce qu'est l'enfer)

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