Home › Words › A › arranarran/ˈaɹən/arran means spider.arran is pronounced /ˈaɹən/.EtymologyInherited from Middle English arayne, arane, from Old French araigne, aragne, from Latin arānea, related to or derived from Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē). Doublet of Arachne.nounspidere.g.“Sweep'th Arrans down, till all be clean neer lin, Els he'l leauk all Agye when he comes in […]” — 1685, George Meriton, “A Yorkeſhire Dialogue in its pure natural Dialect”, in The praise of York-ſhire ale wherein is enumerated ſeveral ſorts of drinks, York: Francis Hildyard, page 59:nameA male given name transferred from the place name, of modern Scottish usage.A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.Synonym of Arranmore (island in County Donegal, Ireland)A male given name from Tamil.In post-Islamic times, a region of eastern Transcaucasia, lying between the Rivers Kura and Araxes, in what is now the Republic of Azerbaijan and the unrecognized Republic of Artsakh, corresponding to the territory of Caucasian Albania on the right bank of the River Kura which was disattached from Greater Armenia in 387 AD. In pre-Islamic times, the term was used for the whole of Caucasian Albania.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.araneidan 70% match — Any spider vs arran →spidery 62% match — Like a spider. vs arran →arachnofauna 61% match — the spider life inhabiting a region vs arran →spidered 58% match — infested by spiders; covered in cobwebs vs arran →arachnidan 58% match — arachnid (any of the Arachnida). vs arran →araneophagic 57% match — That eats spiders. vs arran →attercop 56% match — A spider. vs arran →salticid 56% match — jumping spider vs arran →