Usually means: Mountain or hill in Chinese.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Shan:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shan, Shan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Shan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Shan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Shan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Shan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shan, shan: Wordnik
  7. Shan, shan: Wiktionary
  8. Shan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Shan: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. shan: Dictionary.com
  11. shan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Shan (actor), Shan (disambiguation), Shan (surname), Shan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Shan: Rhymezone
  14. shan: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Shan: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shan: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. SHAN: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shan, shan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shan: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. shan: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shaning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Shan)

adjective:  (Geordie, Edinburgh) unfair, harsh
adjective:  (Scotland, Hartlepool) poor, low-quality
noun:  A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.
noun:  The language of this people, of the Kra-Dai language family.
noun:  A state of Myanmar.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language.
noun:  The Shan Pass: a mountain pass in Shanzhou, Henan, through which the Yellow River flows into the North China Plain.

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