KAZAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kazan mean? 

• KAZAN (noun)
  The noun KAZAN has 2 senses:

1. United States stage and screen director (born in Turkey) and believer in method acting (1909-2003)

2. an industrial city in the European part of Russia

  Familiarity information: KAZAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAZAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States stage and screen director (born in Turkey) and believer in method acting (1909-2003)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elia Kazan; Elia Kazanjoglous; Kazan

Instance hypernyms:

director; theater director; theatre director (someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An industrial city in the European part of Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Kazan" is a part of...):

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)