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devan

devan verb: to unload (goods) from a container.

Verb

devan (third-person singular simple present devans, present participle devanning, simple past and past participle devanned)

  1. (transitive) To unload (goods) from a container.

Proper noun capitalized: Devan

Devan

  1. A surname, alternative spelling of Devon
  2. A unisex given name, alternative spelling of Devin

Forms of devan

third-person singular presentdevans
present participledevanning
past participledevanned
pastdevanned

Origin of devan

From de- + van?

Questions about devan

What does devan mean?
Devan means to unload (goods) from a container.
What part of speech is devan?
Devan can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of devan?
The past tense of devan is devanned.

Words near devan in the dictionary

  1. devaluers
  2. devalues
  3. devaluing
  4. devaluings
  5. Devamidha
  6. devan
  7. Devanagari
  8. Devanagari numeral
  9. Devanagari numerals
  10. Devane
  11. Devaney

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devan (page history and authors); Devan (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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