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Princeton's WordNet
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"
weanverb
detach the affections of
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To WEANverb
Etymology: wenan , Saxon.
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.
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.
Wikipedia
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).
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
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
Weanadjective
hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything
Weannoun
a weanling; a young child
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 Dictionary
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 Records
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 »
wane
anew
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wean in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wean in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of wean in a Sentence
They stay with their mothers until they're 5 months old, and then we'll wean them.
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.
As part of the GOP old guard, I joined a 12 step program to wean myself from politics as usual within the Party.
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.
Our system allows farmers to wean their depleted, damaged soils off a diet of chemicals.
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- odstavitCzech
- abstillenGerman
- απογαλακτίζομαι, απογαλακτίζωGreek
- destetarSpanish
- vieroittua, vieroittaaFinnish
- sevrerFrench
- やめさせる, 乳離れさせるJapanese
- одвикнува, се одвикнуваMacedonian
- spenen, ontwennenDutch
- desmamarPortuguese
- hanuk'ayQuechua
- отучать от груди, отлучать, отучать, отучить от груди, отнимать от груди, отлучить, отвыкать от груди, отвыкнуть, отвыкать, отнять от груди, отвыкнуть от груди, отучитьRussian
- دودھ چھڑاناUrdu
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