Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mahan
1 sense of mahan
Sense 1
Mahan, Alfred Thayer Mahan -- (United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914))
INSTANCE OF=> naval officer -- (an officer in the navy)
INSTANCE OF=> historian, historiographer -- (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)