<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up van in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up van in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> van is a preposition in the Dutch and Afrikaans languages, meaning "of" or "from" depending on the context (similar to de and di in the Romance languages). </P> <P> van is a very common prefix in Dutch language surnames, where it is known as a tussenvoegsel . In those cases it nearly always refers to a certain, often quite distant, ancestor's place of origin; examples of this in English can be found in the names Greta Van Susteren "from Susteren" and Rembrandt van Rijn "from the Rhine". </P>

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