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ant
1[ ant ]
noun
- any of numerous black, red, brown, or yellow social insects of the family Formicidae, of worldwide distribution especially in warm climates, having a large head with inner jaws for chewing and outer jaws for carrying and digging, and living in highly organized colonies containing wingless female workers, a winged queen, and, during breeding seasons, winged males, some species being noted for engaging in warfare, slavemaking, or the cultivation of food sources.
an't
2[ ant, ahnt, eynt ]
- Chiefly British Dialect. contraction of am not.
- Dialect. ain't.
ant-
3- variant of anti- before a vowel or h: antacid; anthelmintic .
-ant
4- a suffix forming adjectives and nouns from verbs, occurring originally in French and Latin loanwords ( pleasant; constant; servant ) and productive in English on this model; -ant has the general sense “characterized by or serving in the capacity of ” that named by the stem ( ascendant; pretendant ), especially in the formation of nouns denoting human agents in legal actions or other formal procedures ( tenant; defendant; applicant; contestant ). In technical and commercial coinages, -ant is a suffix of nouns denoting impersonal physical agents ( propellant; lubricant; deodorant ). In general, -ant can be added only to bases of Latin origin, with a very few exceptions, as coolant .
ant.
5abbreviation for
- antenna
- antonym.
Ant.
6abbreviation for
- Antarctica.
ant-
1prefix
- a variant of anti-
antacid
ant
2/ æԳ /
noun
- any small social insect of the widely distributed hymenopterous family Formicidae, typically living in highly organized colonies of winged males, wingless sterile females (workers), and fertile females (queens), which are winged until after mating See also army ant fire ant slave ant wood ant formic
- white antanother name for a termite
- have ants in one's pants slang.to be restless or impatient
-ant
4suffix forming adjectives
- causing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action
protestant
pleasant
claimant
deodorant
servant
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- Գl adjective
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ant1
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ant1
Old English ǣٳٱ; related to Old High German 峾, Old Norse meita; see emmet
Origin of ant2
from Latin -ant-, ending of present participles of the first conjugation
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Idioms and Phrases
- have ants in one's pants, Slang. to be impatient or eager to act or speak.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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