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San

Pronunciation: (sän), [key]
—n.
a river in central Europe, flowing from the Carpathian Mountains in W Ukraine through SE Poland into the Vistula: battles 1914–15. ab. 280 mi. (450 km) long.

San

Pronunciation: (sän), [key]
—n.,
—pl. Sans (esp. collectively) San for 1.
1. a member of a nomadic, racially distinct, short-statured people of southern Africa.
2. any of more than a dozen related Khoisan languages spoken by the San. Also called Bushman.

-san

a suffix used in Japanese as a term of respect after names or titles: Suzuki-san; samurai-san.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

samurai

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