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van

Pronunciation: /vɑn/

“van” is a Dutch word. Its 18 meanings in English:

preposition

  1. of (possession, property)
  2. of (general association)
  3. by, of (creator)
  4. from (origin)
  5. from (starting point of a movement or change)
  6. from (starting point in time)
  7. from, off (removal of something from off something else)
  8. of, out of, from, with (cause)
  9. of, out of, with (material or resource)
  10. of, out of, among (out of a larger whole; partitive)
  11. from, was, formerly (indicating a change in price)
  12. like (quotative (used to introduce direct speech))

adverb

  1. of, from
  2. from
  3. by, from
  4. of, about

noun

  1. a surname or nickname beginning with the preposition van
  2. any surname

Etymology

From Middle Dutch van, from Old Dutch fan (“from”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanā, from Proto-Germanic *fanē, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂poneh₁ (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epo, *h₂pó (“off, of”). Cognate with Old Saxon fana, fan (“from”), Old Frisian fan, fon (“from”), Old High German fona, fon (“from”).

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