optant

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Archived revision by WingerBot (talk | contribs) as of 17:25, 28 September 2019.
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

Etymology

opt +‎ -ant

Noun

optant (plural optants)

  1. A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
    • 1914, W. R. Prior, Oxford Pamphlets: North Sleswick under Prussian Rule‎[1], London: Oxford University Press, page 9:
      According to one authority, nearly 40,000 of the Sleswick Danes had become 'optants'—that is, had taken the 'option' of Danish nationality—or had emigrated, by the end of 1880.
  2. A person who opts into, out of, or for something.

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

optant

  1. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 806: Parameter "m" is not used by this template.

French

Verb

optant

  1. present participle of opter

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) optant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of optō
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=optant&oldid=54352437"