1. ayn - Noun
2. Ayn - Proper noun
Ayn
A commune of the Savoie department, France.
Ayn
Synonym of Buhoodle, a district of Togdheer, Somalia.
Ayn
A female given name.
AYN
Initialism of Anarchist Youth Network.
ayn (plural ayns)
(linguistics) Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
ayn (plural ayns)
(linguistics) Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
Ayn
A commune of the Savoie department, France.
Ayn
Synonym of Buhoodle, a district of Togdheer, Somalia.
Ayn
A female given name.
ayn (plural ayns)
(linguistics) Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
ayn (plural ayns)
(linguistics) Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. Paul Ryan
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Clarence Thomas
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky. Flannery O’Connor
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does. Ilana Mercer
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. Theodore Sturgeon
I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Sara Shepard