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Definition of "pan-" []

  • All: panorama. (prefix)
  • Involving all of or the union of a specified group: Pan-Hellenic. (prefix)
  • General; whole: panleukopenia. (prefix)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pan-" in a sentence
  • "Most combinations with pan- are proper nouns, however, and both pan- and the proper name it is combined with are capitalized:"
  • "His policy of using Libya’s oil wealth to aggressively pursue his pan- Africanist vision has paid rich dividends."