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Meanings of wan in English

Portuguese
rede alargada
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A computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network.

        rede alargada

        (Of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.

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                            Usage of wan in English
                            1
                            However, South Korean battery expert and professor Park Chul-wan was more optimistic.
                            Reuters
                            2
                            It was misting; the streets gleamed wet and wan beneath the lamps.
                            O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
                            3
                            Tears blinded her eyes; her face was wan; her mien terribly haggard.
                            The Woman Who Did
                            4
                            The whole forest world was wan and ghostly in the mysterious light.
                            The Snowshoe Trail
                            5
                            Isabelle looked wan and pale, and desperately unhappy, and with good reason.
                            Jewels
                            6
                            Unfortunately, D'Agosto loosely anchors the movie in a wan and passive manner.
                            Reuters
                            7
                            In the thin, cold moonlight, the wintry wood looked spectral and wan.
                            Red Money
                            8
                            Even in the wan light her face was rosy with her confession.
                            Madcap
                            9
                            Marcella looked wan and tired; her eyes were ringed with black shadows.
                            Captivity
                            10
                            Tamír managed a wan smile; the Dragon was one of Illior's signs.
                            Oracle's Queen
                            11
                            Evangeline dropped her fists to her sides and forced a wan smile.
                            Too wicked to kiss
                            12
                            After she'd calmed, she began to speak in a wan, desolate voice.
                            The Dragon King’s Palace
                            13
                            Tired and sad are the air-mothers, and their gardens rent and wan.
                            Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
                            14
                            Tired and sad are the air-mothers, and their garments rent and wan.
                            Health and Education
                            15
                            I know better'n to get drowned and starved to death in wan.
                            Overland: A Novel
                            16
                            The girl answered with a wan smile and a little broken sigh.
                            The Lone Wolf: A Melodrama
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