ant

• ante, ampte

From Middle English ampte, amte, emete, amete, from Old English ǣmette (“ant”), from Proto-Germanic *ēmaitijǭ (“ant”, literally “biting-thing, cutter”), from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mai- (“to cut”). Cognate with Scots emmot (“ant”), dialectal Dutch emt, empt (“ant”), German Ameise and Emse (“ant”). See also emmet.

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: ănt, IPA^(key): /ænt/
• (æ-tensing), IPA^(key): [ɛənt]

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• Rhymes: -ænt
• Homophone: aunt (in some accents)

ant (plural ants)

1. Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects [… ]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] . But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.

2. (Internet) A Web spider.

• (insect): emmet (archaic), pismire (archaic)

• (insect in Formicidae): army ant, black garden ant, bull ant, carpenter ant, fire ant, garden ant, honey-pot ant, leafcutter ant, pharaoh ant, piss ant, red ant, sauba ant, thief ant, wood ant

• ant- (prefix)
• -ant (suffix)
• Appendix: Animals
• army
• bike
• colony
• nest
• Appendix:English collective nouns

ant (third-person singular simple present ants, present participle anting, simple past and past participle anted)

1. (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
   • 1974, “Relationship of anting and sunbathing to molting in wild birds”, in The Auk‎, volume 91, page 538:

     Wild birds tend to ant and sunbathe most frequently during periods of high humidity, particularly right after heavy or prolonged rainfall in summer.

• NAT, NTA, Nat, Nat., TAN, TNA, Tan, nat, tan

ant m

1. furrow

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈan/

ant m (plural ants)

1. elk, moose

ant

1. oath

• yemin

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From French entre (“between”).

ant

1. between

• IPA^(key): [ɐnt]

añt (with genitive)

1. on

May be borrowed from Egyptian ḥm-nṯr (“priest”).

ant

1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:

   priest

• Meeks, Dimitri (1973) Liste des mots méroïtiques ayant une signification connue au supposée, Meroitic Newsletter / Bulletin d'informations méroïtiques № 13, pages 3–20

• aant

• IPA^(key): /aːnt/

ant

1. third-person plural present indicative of mynet

From Proto-Turkic *Ānt (“oath”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰦‎ (nt), Azerbaijani and, etc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈant/
• Hyphenation: ant

ant (definite accusative andı, plural antlar)

1. oath

• kasem
• yemin

ant (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

1. oath

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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ȧnt f (plural anta)

1. duck