) is a French preposition meaning "without", and is used in the same sense in English.**Sans-serif (without serifs), in typography, a typeface that does not have the small features called "serifs" at the end of strokes that make up letters and symbols**Sans-culottes (without knee-breeches) or Sansculottism, a term created 1790-1792 by the French aristocracy to describe the poorer members of the Third Estate**Sans Famille (without family), an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot in the vein of Oliver Twist**Sans Souci (without cares), disambiguation page ***Sanssouci, the former summer palace of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia at Potsdam*Sans, California, a former settlement*Bushmen - the indigenous people of Southern Africa, often referred to as San*Plural of san*Daniel Sans (born 1975), German tenor - Source: Wikipedia