1 a person who admires sb/sth or enjoys watching or listening to sb/sth very much:
movie fans * crowds of football fans * a big fan of Pavarotti * fan mail (= letters from fans to the person they admire)
2 a machine with blades that go round to create a current of air:
to switch on the electric fan * a fan heater
seealsoEXTRACTOR
3 a thing that you hold in your hand and wave to create a current of cool air
IDIOMS see SHITn.
verb (-nn-) [VN]
1 to make air blow onto sb/sth by waving a fan, your hand, etc:
He fanned himself with a newspaper to cool down. * A warm breeze fanned her cheeks.
2 to make a fire burn more strongly by blowing on it:
Fanned by a westerly wind, the fire spread rapidly through the city.
3 (written) to make a feeling, an attitude, etc. stronger
SYNFUEL:
His reluctance to answer her questions simply fanned her curiosity.
IDIOMS
fan the flames (of sth) to make a feeling such as anger, hatred, etc. worse:
His writings fanned the flames of racism.
PHRASALVERBS
fan out
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for fan is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fan a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fan is tagged as noun.
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