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Updated in 2009. Published by <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eref-trade.hmco.com/">Houghton Mifflin Company</a>. All rights reserved.</p><hr><span class="hw">san</span> <span class="pron0x">[sæn]</span><div><i>n</i><div class="ds-list"> <i>Old-fashioned informal</i> short for <b>sanatorium</b> (esp sense 3)</div></div><hr align="left" class="hmsep"><span class="hw">San</span><sup>1</sup><div><i>n</i><div class="ds-list"><b>1.</b> (Social Science / Peoples) an aboriginal people of southern Africa</div><div class="ds-list"><b>2.</b> (Linguistics / Languages) (Social Science / Peoples) a group of the Khoisan languages, spoken mostly by Bushmen</div></div><hr align="left" class="hmsep"><span class="hw">San</span><sup>2</sup><div><i>n</i><div class="ds-list"> (Placename) a river in E central Europe, rising in the W Ukraine and flowing northwest across SE Poland to the Vistula River. Length: about 450 km (280 miles)</div></div><script>hc_dict()</script><p class="brand_copy"><a href="/_/misc/HarperCollinsProducts.aspx?English">Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged</a> © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003</p></div>
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