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emmet
English
Etymology
From Middle English emete, from Old English ?mete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m?t/
- Rhymes: -?m?t
Noun
emmet (plural emmets)
- (dialectal or archaic) An ant.
- , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:
- He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]
- 1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c
- before 1729, Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you":
- What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
- An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
- 1789, William Blake, Songs of Innocence, A Dream:
- Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.
- 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, IV.430:
- [A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
- , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:
- (Cornwall, derogatory) A tourist.
See also
- grockle
Anagrams
- Temme
Estonian
Noun
emmet
- partitive singular of emme
Tuareg
Etymology
From Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Cognate with Egyptian mwt and Arabic ???? (m?ta)
Verb
emmet
- to die
References
emmet From the web:
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ants
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ænts/
- Rhymes: -ænts
Noun
ants
- plural of ant
Verb
ants
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ant
Anagrams
- -stan, -stan-, ASNT, NTAs, Nast, Nats, Sant, Stan, Tans, Tsan, nats, stan, stan', tans
Catalan
Noun
ants
- plural of ant
Tzeltal
Noun
ants (plural antsetik)
- woman
See also
- winik
References
- Roberto Santiz Gómez (2010) Raíces posicionales en Tseltal de Oxchuc, p. 22. (retrieved 10th March 2016)
Tzotzil
Alternative forms
- 'antz, 7antz
Pronunciation
- (Zinacantán) IPA(key): /?änt?s?/
Noun
ants (plural antsetik)
- woman
Antonyms
- vinik
References
- “?an¢” in Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Jorge A. Suárez, The Mesoamerican Indian Languages (1983)
ants From the web:
- what ants have wings
- what ants bite
- what ants eat
- what ants don't like
- what ants eat wood
- what ants fly
- what ants can fly
- what ants sting
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