wan

adjective3

1. •
   Pale, sickly-looking.

   • Whome when his Lady saw, to him she ran / With hasty ioy : to see him made her glad, / And sad to view his visage pale and wan, / Who earst in flowres of freshest youth was clad. — 1590
2. •
   Dim, faint.
3. •
   Bland, uninterested.

   • “I have to admit, I’ve been tempted a time or two to chuck everything to go live in a place like this [Bogda Peak, China],” he replied. / “What stopped you?” / He gave her a wan look. “Celibacy.” — 2014

noun2

1. •
   (Ireland) A girl or woman.

   • Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die. — 1993
2. •
   The quality of being wan; wanness.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of wide area network.

   • Message latency is much more of an issue on a WAN than on a LAN.