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ulan

ulan is the alternative form of uhlan.

Meaning of uhlan

Noun

uhlan (plural uhlans)

  1. (historical) A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian or German, Austrian, and Russian armies.

Proper noun capitalized: Ulan

Ulan

  1. A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  2. A county of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, China.
    • Forestry, animal husbandry and sideline occupations have also grown vigorously. (Chachia) commune in Wulan County has swept away the conservative idea that it is hard to hold two sheep with one hand, has persisted in taking animal husbandry as the main occupation and combining animal husbandry with...[1976 January 7 [1975 December 30], “Tsinghai Tachai Conference Closes 30 Dec”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 4, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from...
    • The lake is situated in Ulan county, Haixi autonomous prefecture, in western China’s Qinghai province. The blue skies reflected off the surface of the crystallised saline water have given it the name “Mirror of the Sky”, and it attracted millions of tourists in the first half of 2018.2018 July 31, Zhou Jiaquan, “Hordes of tourists damaging Chinese salt lake’s pristine environment with discarded plastic”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31...

Forms of ulan

pluralulans

Phrases with ulan

Questions about ulan

What does ulan mean?
Ulan means a locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
What is ulan the alternative form of?
Ulan is the alternative form of uhlan.
What part of speech is ulan?
Ulan is a proper noun.

Words near ulan in the dictionary

  1. Ulam
  2. Ulam spiral
  3. Ulam spirals
  4. ulama
  5. Ulamambri
  6. ulan
  7. Ulan Bator
  8. Ulan-Ude
  9. Ulangochuian
  10. Ulanhot
  11. ulank

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ulan (page history and authors); Ulan (page history and authors); uhlan (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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