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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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
- Offensive
To act in a way that makes you look foolish in front of others
- Archaic
To marry a woman, often after a romantic or sexual relationship, to make the relationship legal and respected
- Offensive
To do something that makes both people look foolish
- Informal
Something or someone that is very mysterious and hard to understand
- Informal
To move with bent arms and a stiff posture like the dance from the song
- Informal
A comment that a meeting is unnecessary because the information can be sent by email
- Informal
To finish a very large task by doing small easy steps
- Offensive
To behave in a silly way without thinking when nervous or tired
- Offensive
Behave in a rude, annoying, and foolish way toward other people
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.