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Ananse

Ananse is the alternative form of Anansi.

Meaning of Anansi

Proper noun

Anansi

  1. A trickster spider (though sometimes taking human form), one of the primary characters in West African and Caribbean folklore.

Questions about Ananse

What is Ananse the alternative form of?
Ananse is the alternative form of Anansi.

Words near Ananse in the dictionary

  1. anankastia
  2. anankastic
  3. anankastics
  4. ananke
  5. Anankean
  6. Ananse
  7. Anansi
  8. Anansy
  9. Anant
  10. Ananta
  11. Anantacaritra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ananse (page history and authors); Anansi (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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