Usually means: Darkest shade of suntanned skin.
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  1. tannest: Merriam-Webster
  2. tannest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tannest: Wordnik
  4. tannest: Wiktionary
  5. tannest: Dictionary.com
  6. tannest: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tannest: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tannest: Encyclopedia

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  1. tannest: Medical dictionary

(Note: See tan as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (TAN)

noun:  A light, brown-like colour.
noun:  A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
noun:  The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
adjective:  Yellowish-brown.
adjective:  Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
verb:  (transitive, stative) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
noun:  An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
noun:  Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
noun:  (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
verb:  (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
noun:  A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
noun:  A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
noun:  A surname from Vietnamese.
noun:  Alternative form of Dan [(biblical) The fifth son of Jacob and Bilhah (who was Rachel's handmaid).]
noun:  (engineering) Initialism of total acid number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity. See Total acid number on Wikipedia.
noun:  (banking) Initialism of transaction authentication number, in electronic banking. See Transaction authentication number on Wikipedia.
▸ Also see tan


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