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Van sb.4. World English Historical Dictionary

Van sb.4. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Van sb.4 [a. Welsh fan (van), mutated form of ban height, occurring in place-names in South Wales, esp. in Brecknock.] A height or summit.

1 1871.  Kingsley, At Last, ii. Flat ‘vans’ or hog-backed hills, and broad sweeps of moorland,… are as rare as are steep walls of cliff.

2 1905.  A. R. Wallace, My Life, I. 249. The range of the great forest of Brecon, with its series of isolated summits or vans.

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