Associations to the word «Stans»

Wiktionary

STAN, noun. (slang) (sometimes pejorative) An extremely loyal and obsessed fan, particularly one whose fixation with a celebrity is unhealthy or intrusive.
STAN, noun. Singular form of the generic term stans meaning some ex-soviet union countries, and their neighbours, where the country name ends with "-stan". Such as Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kasakhstan, and so on.
STAN, proper noun. A diminutive of the   male given name Stanley.

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