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Loran

Loran proper noun: a surname. Also the alternative letter-case form of LORAN.

Proper noun

Loran (plural Lorans)

  1. A surname.

Noun capitalized: LORAN

LORAN (countable and uncountable, plural LORANs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of long-range navigation.
    • During movement, LORAN was used only to augment and verify the accuracy of the GPS. Several companies that had specific missions at march objectives, though, used LORANs without GPS verification.1991, Infantry, volume 81, page 38

Also used as

Loran is also the alternative letter-case form of LORAN.

Forms of Loran

Proper noun
pluralLorans
Noun
pluralLorans
pluralLORANs
alternative formLoran

Origin of Loran

Two main origins: * A variant of the Irish surname Loughran. * Borrowed from Catalan Lorán, a surname popular in Venezuela.

Questions about Loran

What does Loran mean?
Loran means a surname.
What part of speech is Loran?
Loran can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Loran in the dictionary

  1. Lorain County
  2. lorajmine
  3. loral
  4. Loralyn
  5. Loramie
  6. Loran
  7. Lorance
  8. Lorances
  9. lorandite
  10. Lorang
  11. Loranger

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Loran (page history and authors); LORAN (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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