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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] — pl. Sans San
a member of a nomadic, racially distinct, short-statured people of southern Africa. any of more than a dozen related Khoisan languages spoken by the San. Also called -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.