an apparatus with rotating blades that creates a current of air for cooling or ventilation
a person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular sport, art form, or famous person
a member of a people inhabiting parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon
a Chinese gambling game in which players try to guess the remainder after the banker has divided a number of hidden objects into four groups
a horny coral with a vertical treelike or fanlike skeleton, living chiefly in warmer seas
the fans of a sports team, pop music group, etc., considered as a distinct social grouping
(in a motor-vehicle engine) a belt that transmits motion from the driveshaft to the radiator fan and the generator or alternator
a dance in which the female performer is apparently nude and remains partly concealed throughout by large fans
a type of vault consisting of a set of concave ribs spreading out from a central point like the ribs of an opened umbrella, used especially in the English Perpendicular style
a tube-dwelling marine bristle worm that bears a fanlike crown of filaments that are typically brightly colored and project from the top of the tube, filtering the water for food particles
fiction written by a fan of, and featuring characters from, a particular TV series, movie, etc.
an electric heater in which a fan drives air over a hot element and back into the room
a fan-shaped mass of alluvium deposited as the flow of a river decreases in velocity
a small Old World warbler with streaked plumage and a stubby boldly marked tail
a male fan, especially one who is obsessive about movies, comic books, or science fiction