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fan

 
 
/fæn/ noun [C]

Definition

PERSON someone who admires and supports a famous person, sport, type of music, etc: More than 15,000 Liverpool fans attended Saturday's game. He's a big fan of country music.
OBJECT something that is used to move the air around so that it feels cooler, such as a machine or an object that you wave with your hand: an electric fan
(Definition of fan noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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