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Definition: AVAUNT |
AVAUNTInterjection1. Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone." Intransitive & transitive verb1. To vaunt; to boast. 2. To depart; to move away. 3. To advance; to move forward; to elevate. Noun1. A vaunt; to boast. |
Date "AVAUNT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Interjection: begone! get you gone! get away, go away, get along, go along, get along with you, go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you! get the hell out of here!, go about your business! be off! avaunt! aroynt! allez-vous-en! jao! va-t'en! |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AVAUNT |
| Specialty definitions using "AVAUNT": Soho!. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "AVAUNT": Avant, avant-courier. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
avaunt | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AVAUNT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μακράν (abroad, afield, aloof, away, by far), άπαγε (begone, fie-fie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avauntay pleacã! piei din faţa mea. (various references) вон!. (various references) геть (away, beat it, begone, get, get out, hence, out, out upon you). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-n-t-u-v" | |
-1 letter: avant, vaunt. | |
-2 letters: anta, aunt, tuna, vatu. | |
-3 letters: ana, ant, ava, nut, tan, tau, tav, tun, uta, van, vat, vau. | |
-4 letters: aa, an, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-n-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: adjuvant, evacuant. | |
+3 letters: adjuvants, evacuants, valuating, valuation. | |
+4 letters: evacuating, evacuation, evaluating, evaluation, hantavirus, transvalue, univariate, valuations. | |
+5 letters: anovulatory, autoclaving, devaluating, devaluation, evacuations, evaluations, revaluating, revaluation, transvalued, transvalues, unevaluated, vacuolation, valuational, vanguardist, vulcanisate, vulcanizate. | |
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