English Dictionary

an

/ˈæn/

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Used before a vowel sound. / Used before /h/ in an unstressed syllable. / (now quite rare) Used before one and words with initial u, eu. / (nonstandard) Used before /h/ in a stressed syllable.

I have an apple.

意味（1）

Used before a vowel sound.

I'll be there in half an hour.

意味（2）

Used before /h/ in an unstressed syllable.

The Province of Nanking, by the Tartars called Kiangnan, is the ſecond in honour, in magnitude and fertility in all China : It is divided into 14 great Territories, having Cities and Towns an hundred and ten; Nanking, or Kiangning being the Metropolis; a City, that if ſhe did not exceed moſt Cities on the Earth in bigneſs and beauty, yet ſhe was inferior to few, for her Pagodes, her Temples, her Porcelane Towers, her Palaces and Triumphal Arches. Fungiang, Sucheu, Sunkiang, Leucheu, Hoaigan, Ganking, Ningue, Hoeicheu, are alſo eminent places, and of great Note and Trade.

意味（3）

(now quite rare) Used before one and words with initial u, eu.

God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.

意味（4）

(nonstandard) Used before /h/ in a stressed syllable.

意味（5）

(nonstandard, Britain, West Country) Used before all consonants.