ait
/eɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.76 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An oat.
intj
Alternative form of aight.
noun
Initialism of alloimmune thrombocytopenia: a too-low number of platelets in the blood, especially of a newborn or fetus, due to alloimmunity.
Countable; Uncountable
name
Initialism of Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria's largest Research and Technology Organization (RTO)).
Example Sentences
- "The ait where the osiers grew."
- "‘[H]e the said seigneur, in quality of Lord Paramount, is to all intents and purposes invested with the sole right and property of the river running through his fief, together with […] all the islands and aits within it.’"
- "1833, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9, Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits."
- "Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows."
- "Let husky wheat the haughs adorn, An' aits set up their awnie horn,"
Etymology
From Middle English eyt, eit, from Old English īġeoþ, īgoþ, iggaþ, iggoþ (“ait, eyot, islet, small island”), diminutive of īġ, ēġ, īeġ (“island”). More at eyot.