pan

1. 1.

   make a sweeping movement

   “The camera panned across the room”

   Broadertravel
2. 2.

   wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals

   Synonymspan outpan off

   Broaderwash
3. 3.

   express a totally negative opinion of

   “The critics panned the performance”

   Synonymstear aparttrash

   Broaderdisparage

Other forms of pan

plural

pans·

past tense or participle

panned

present participle

panning

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pan

What does pan mean?

pan means "cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pan?

pan has 1 syllable: pan. In IPA it is /ˈpæn/.

What is another word for pan?

Close synonyms include cooking pan, goat god, genus Pan, pan out, pan off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pan a common word?

pan is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pan?

3 words rhyme with pan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.