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pan-

pan- prefix: all.

Prefix

pan-

  1. All.
    • panenteroviral
    • Panhellenic
    1. Every member of a countable set.
      • pancarditis
      • panophthalmitis
    2. Most, nearly all, effectively all in quantity.
      • panallergenic
      • panbacterial
    3. Encompassing, including all, or involving all.
      • pancaspase
      • pangender
    4. Entire, whole; the entirety of the root object or category.
      • pancolonoscopy
      • pangastritis
    5. Universal, everything, all that can be imagined.
      • pangeometry
      • panphobia
    6. Unification of a social group; the political movement to unify said group.
      • Pan-Africanism
      • pan-Indianism
    7. Spanning the entirety of a set which may not be countable; its members may not be clearly distinguished from each other.
      • pancontinental
      • pan-Covid
    8. Throughout an area indicated by the root.
      • panarctic
      • pancolitis
    9. Representing or covering a given social group.
      • Pan-Asian
      • pan-Palestinian
    10. Ubiquitous, widespread. The root indicates what is widespread rather than the area in which it is widespread.
      • panallergen
      • pannecrosis
  2. Pansexual or pansexuality.
    • pancurious
    • panphobia

pan- meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

pan- in Hindi

a combining form meaning "all"
सर्व sarv

pan- in Malayalam

എല്ലാ, സർവ്വ

Synonyms of pan-

Origin of pan-

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-), combining form of πᾶς (pâs, “all, every”).

Words formed from pan-

Questions about pan-

What does pan- mean?
Pan- means all.
What is pan- in Hindi?
Pan- in Hindi is सर्व (sarv). See Pan- meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is pan-?
Pan- is a prefix.

Words near pan- in the dictionary

  1. pan tao peach
  2. pan tao peaches
  3. pan theism
  4. pan theisms
  5. Pan's-pipes
  6. pan-
  7. Pan-Abrahamic
  8. Pan-African
  9. Pan-Africanism
  10. Pan-Africanist
  11. Pan-Africanists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pan- (page history and authors); pan- (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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