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
- autosave
- auto-scan
- autoschediasm
- autoschediastic
- autoschediastical
- autoscope
- autoscopic
- autoscopy
- auto-search
- autosemantic
- autosensitisation
- autosensitization
- autosexed
- autosexing
- autoshaping
- autosite
- autositic
- autosomal
- autosomal dominant
- autosomal recessive
- autosome
- autosoteric
- autosoterism
- autostabilisation
- autostabiliser