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blan

blan is the simple past of blin.

Meaning of blin

Verb

blin (third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blan or blun)

  1. (Scotland, Yorkshire, especially, obsolete, Northumberland) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.
    • nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    stop

See all 5 meanings of blin

Proper noun capitalized: Blan

Blan (plural Blans)

  1. A surname.

Forms of blan

Verb
alternative formblinned
Proper noun
pluralBlans

Questions about blan

What does blan mean?
Blan means a surname.
What is blan the simple past of?
Blan is the simple past of blin.
What part of speech is blan?
Blan is a proper noun.

Words near blan in the dictionary

  1. blamming
  2. blammo
  3. blammy
  4. Blampied
  5. blams
  6. blan
  7. blanagram
  8. blanagrams
  9. blanc
  10. blanc de chine
  11. Blanc de Hotot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blan (page history and authors); Blan (page history and authors); blin (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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