sans
/sanz
/preposition literary or humorous
Without: a picture of Maughan sans specs...
- Will we be regretting our single or common law status sans children when we're 40 and are nearing the end of our childbearing days?
- The two-door hatchback car comes sans engine, carburettor, gearbox, radiator and exhaust.
- Because it's 50 miles off the Queensland coast, the water is exceptionally clear, sans coastal runoff and sediment.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French sanz, from a variant of Latin sine 'without', influenced by Latin absentia 'in the absence of'.
Rhymes
- combinational circuit
- combination lock
- combination oven
- combination skin
- combination therapy
- combinative
- combinatorial
- combinatorial chemistry
- combinatorially
- combinatorics
- combinatory
- combine
- combined pill
- combine harvester
- combiner
- combings
- combing wool
- combining form
- comb jelly
- comb-like
- combo
- combo box
- combo drive
- comb-over
- combs