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lant

/lænt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.78 in modern English

Syllables
lant
IPA
/lænt/
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.

Uncountable

verb

To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Obsolete; Transitive verb

noun

Obsolete form of lanterloo (the card game).

British usage; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).

name

Abbreviation of Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean).

name

A surname from Middle English.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

lants (present, singular) lanting (participle, present) lanted (participle, past) lanted (past) lants (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

PAC

Synonyms

sig launce sand eel sand lance

Rhymes With

can't plant grant cant aunt ant transplant rant chant implant levant brandt

Questions

How do you pronounce lant?
The recorded pronunciation is /lænt/.
What does lant mean?
Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
Where does lant come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce lant

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