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multi

multi is the clipping of multistan.

Meaning of multistan

Noun (1)

multistan (plural multistans)

  1. (slang) A person who is a stan (“obsessive fan”) of multiple people or things, especially K-pop performers.
    • another day of stays [Stray Kids stans] and army [BTS stans] fighting😪 TIRED of being a multistan2023 December 4, @vx_lust, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2024
    Synonyms:
    multi

Noun (2)

multistan (plural multistans)

  1. (South Africa, historical) A proposed special territory in apartheid-era South Africa in which racial laws are repealed and the authority of the central government is reduced, advocated as a policy by Paul N. Malherbe.

Noun (1)

multi (plural multis)

  1. (informal) A multituberculate.
    • Our Mesozoic antecedents are typified by small size; even the largest of the multis are not larger than a groundhog.1996, Michael Novacek, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs, page 316

Noun (2)

multi (plural multies)

  1. (informal) Neolamprologus multifasciatus (small shell-dwelling cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika, popular as aquarium fish)

Noun (3)

multi (uncountable)

  1. A contract bridge convention whereby the opening bid of 2♦ shows several possible types of hands.

Forms of multi

pluralmultis
pluralmulties

Origin of multi

Clipping of multistan.

Clipping of multituberculate.

< multifasciatus

Phrases with multi

Questions about multi

What does multi mean?
Multi means a multituberculate.
What is multi the clipping of?
Multi is the clipping of multistan.
What part of speech is multi?
Multi is a noun.
What is the plural of multi?
The plural of multi is multis.

Words near multi in the dictionary

  1. multeities
  2. multeity
  3. multenion
  4. multenions
  5. multhiomycin
  6. multi
  7. multi box
  8. multi boxes
  9. multi infarct
  10. multi infarcts
  11. Multi Input Gateway

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Adapted from Wiktionary: multi (page history and authors); multistan (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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