| an |
| 1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
| 2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
| 3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
| 4. conj. (archaic) If | |
| 5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
| An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
| 6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
| 7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
| 8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
| I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
| epistolary |
| 1. n. a Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles. | |
| 2. adj. of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters | |
| 3. adj. carried on by written correspondence | |
| 4. adj. in the manner of written correspondence | |
| epistolary style | |
| an epistolary novel | |
| novel |
| 1. adj. new, original, especially in an interesting way | |
| 2. n. (obsolete) A novelty; something new. | |
| 3. n. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. | |
| 4. n. (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. | |
| 5. n. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. | |
