mote
/moʊt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye."
- "What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?"
- "I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust."
- "he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny."
- "‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster."
- "a wardmote in the city of London"
Etymology
From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), from Proto-West Germanic *mot (“grain of dirt or sand, speck”). Perhaps linked to English mud. Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Low German mut (“peat dust, grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”), Italian mota (“mud”), Spanish mota (“speck”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /moʊt/
- British English: /məʊt/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Computing.