pant

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See also: Pant and pant-

English

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: pănt, IPA(key): /pænt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.

Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  2. (figurative) Eager longing.
    • 1995, John C. Leggett, ‎Suzanne Malm, The Eighteen Stages of Love (page 9)
      Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.
  3. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
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Verb

pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shelley and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
    • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
      Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed
  2. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
    • Bible, Psalms xlii. 1
      As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
    • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
    • (Can we date this quote by Herbert and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Then shall our hearts pant thee.
  4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
  5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
    • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The whispering breeze / Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
  6. (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
  7. (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
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Etymology 2

From pants

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
    Pant leg
Derived terms
Derived terms

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Translations
a pair of pants — see pants

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.

References

  • OED 2nd edition

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

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  1. hinge

Danish

Noun

pant

  1. a deposit (on packaging such as bottles and cans)

Derived terms

See also

Middle English

Verb

pant

  1. Alternative form of panten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Band via Austrian German.

Noun

pȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling па̏нт)

  1. hinge

Declension

Declension of pant
singular plural
nominative pȁnt panti
genitive panta panta
dative pantu pantima
accusative pant pante
vocative pantu panti
locative pante pantima
instrumental pantom pantima

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n

  1. pledge, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security; money returned when a bottle or similar is recycled

Declension

Declension of pant 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pant panten panter panterna
Genitive pants pantens panters panternas

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kwantyo- "flat hill".

Pronunciation

Noun

pant m (plural pantiau)

  1. hollow, depression, small valley, dingle, dell

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pant bant mhant phant
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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