AN
- noun
- /eɪ ɛn/
- Jargon
- She earned her AN after completing a two-year nursing program.
Examples
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Many community colleges offer AN programs for aspiring nurses.
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To become a registered nurse, you need an AN or higher degree.
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Would you say that there is an amount of risk?
Synonyms
A two-year college degree given by community colleges
A qualification that a college gives after about two years of study, shorter than a bachelor's degree
A two-year college degree that prepares someone to be a nurse
Idioms
- Informal
Punishment that gives the same harm back to the person who did the wrong
- Archaic
To marry a woman, often after a romantic or sexual relationship, to make the relationship legal and respected
To punish someone in the same way they hurt another person
- Informal
To move with bent arms and a stiff posture like the dance from the song
- Offensive
To do something that makes both people look foolish
- Informal
Something or someone that is very mysterious and hard to understand
- Informal
Allowing a small favor makes someone try to take much more than you wanted
Compounds
- Formal
A right for someone accused of a crime to have a lawyer, including a free one if they cannot pay
- Specialized
A small plant with yellow flowers that open in the morning and fade by midday
- Specialized
The angle that shows how tilted an orbit is to Earth's path around the Sun
Surface Forms
Morphology
AN = A + N
This is an initialism: the letters 'A' and 'N' do not carry independent lexical meaning, so the form does not transparently reveal 'associate degree in nursing' without knowing the expansion.
Etymology
AN comes from the words 'Associate' and 'Nursing', so the A stands for 'Associate' and the N stands for 'Nursing'. So an AN is the two-year nursing degree many students earn to start a career as a nurse.