Wan word meaning and definition

[noun] a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network
[adjective] lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile"
[adjective] abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"
[adjective] (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn"
[verb] become pale and sickly

\Wan\, obs. imp. of {Win}. Won. --Chaucer.
\Wan\, a. [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid, perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive. See {Win}.] Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid. ``Sad to view, his visage pale and wan.'' --Spenser. My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. --Chaucer. Why so pale and wan, fond lover? --Suckling. With the wan moon overhead. --Longfellow.
\Wan\, n. The quality of being wan; wanness. [R.] Tinged with wan from lack of sleep. --Tennyson.
\Wan\, v. i. To grow wan; to become pale or sickly in looks. ``All his visage wanned.'' --Shak. And ever he mutter'd and madden'd, and ever wann'd with despair. --Tennyson.

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