verb, noun, adjective, abbreviation
verb (-nn-)
1 if a person or their skin tans or is tanned, they become brown as a result of spending time in the sun:
[V] My skin tans really easily. [also VN]
2 [VN] to make animal skin into leather by treating it with chemicals
IDIOMS see HIDEn.
Part of speech: noun
1 [U] a yellowish-brown colour
2 (also suntan) [C] the brown colour that sb with pale skin goes when they have been in the sun:
to get a tan * My tan's fading already.
adjective yellowish brown in colour
abbreviation (mathematics) TANGENT
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for tan is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is tan a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, tan is tagged as noun.
Does tan appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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