Definition of "Stan"

Stan¹

/stæn/

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Stans
1. A municipality in southeast Slovenia.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Stanley.
  Quotations
  Stan Jessop taught at a different school now but lived in the same small 1930s semi-detached as he had done ten years ago. Stan made him sound like an old allotment guy but he was only thirty-six.
  2010, Kate Atkinson, Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie), Random House, page 307
3. A diminutive of the male given name Stanislav.
4. A surname from Romanian.
noun
plural Stans
1. Alternative form of stan (a type of superfan)

Stan²

/stæn/

noun
plural Stans
1. Alternative letter-case form of stan.