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banan

Syllables: Ba·nan

banan noun: banana.

Noun

banan (plural banans)

  1. (informal, rare) Banana.
    • "Hundreds of them," he exclaimed, "may be seen in New Orleans today, three generations from Italy, still pushing carts, yelling 'Banans,' 'Banans,' 'Banans'!!"1991, George E. Pozzetta, Immigrants on the Land: Agriculture, Rural Life, and Small Towns

Proper noun capitalized: Banan

Banan

  1. A district of Chongqing, China.
    • By 2006, after working in the city for nearly twenty years, Yu bought his first apartment in Chongqing’s Ban’an^([sic – meaning Banan]) District for US$20,000, securing a 70 per cent mortgage from a local rural credit company, now part of the restructured Chongqing Rural Credit Commercial Bank.2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60
    • Its Indian arm, Maruti Suzuki, is the largest passenger-car manufacturer on the subcontinent, and Suzuki’s joint venture in China with Changan Automobile recently announced it would build a second plant in the Banan District of Chongqing. The plant will give the venture an annual capacity to build...2012 April 19, Paul Stenquist, “Suzuki: Going Places Elsewhere, but Not in America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023

Forms of banan

pluralbanans

Origin of banan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 巴南 (Bānán).

Questions about banan

What does banan mean?
Banan means banana.
What part of speech is banan?
Banan can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of banan?
The plural of banan is banans.

Words near banan in the dictionary

  1. banally
  2. banalness
  3. banalsite
  4. banalysis
  5. Banamine
  6. banan
  7. banana
  8. banana bag
  9. banana bags
  10. banana ball
  11. banana balls

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