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aca-fan

aca-fan is the alternative form of acafan.

Meaning of acafan

Noun

acafan (plural acafans or acafen)

  1. (slang) An academic who self-identifies as a member of fandom.
    • [Flourish] Klink: Your story about the band member makes me think about fans' reactions to the academic articles they themselves are in. That's a productive comparison, I think - "fans are to acafen the way that band members are to RPF writers" - because I think it opens the door to discussing the...2012, Lynn Zubernis, Katherine Larsen, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/Producer Relationships, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 47

Forms of aca-fan

pluralaca-fans
pluralaca-fen

Questions about aca-fan

What is aca-fan the alternative form of?
Aca-fan is the alternative form of acafan.

Words near aca-fan in the dictionary

  1. AC72's
  2. AC72s
  3. AC90
  4. AC90s
  5. ACA
  6. aca-fan
  7. aca-fandom
  8. aca-fandoms
  9. aca-fans
  10. aca-fen
  11. aca/fan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aca-fan (page history and authors); acafan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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