1. [Brit, informal] Informal term for grandmother
   "nan always had freshly baked cookies when they visited";
   - grandma, grandmother, granny [Brit], grannie [Brit], gran [Brit, informal], nanna [Brit, informal], grandmama [archaic], grandmamma [archaic], nana [informal], nanny [Brit, informal]
    
2. [Brit] Your grandmother
   "We visited Nan every Sunday for tea and biscuits"
    
3. Leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop
   "They ordered garlic nan to accompany their curry";
   - naan, naan bread

1. (computing) not a number, e.g. an invalid result from numerical calculation etc.

1. A river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya
   - Nan River

Derived forms: nans

Type of: bread, breadstuff, grandparent, river, staff of life

Part of: Kingdom of Thailand, Siam, Thailand

Encyclopedia: Nan, Zhang