Associations to the word «Cowan»

Wiktionary

COWAN, noun. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
COWAN, noun. (freemasonry) A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
COWAN, noun. (slang) A sneak; an inquisitive or pry person.
COWAN, noun. (in attributive use) uninitiated, outside, “profane”
COWAN, noun. (Scottish) (obsolete) (rare) A fishing-boat.
COWAN, proper noun. A surname​.
COWAN, proper noun. A town in New South Wales
COWAN, proper noun. A CDP in California
COWAN, proper noun. A town in Indiana
COWAN, proper noun. A city in Tennessee

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats