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AVAUNT

Definition: AVAUNT

AVAUNT

Interjection

1. Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To vaunt; to boast.

2. To depart; to move away.

3. To advance; to move forward; to elevate.

Noun

1. A vaunt; to boast.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "AVAUNT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)


Synonyms within Context: AVAUNT

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: AVAUNT

Specialty definitions using "AVAUNT": Soho!. (references)
Etymologies containing "AVAUNT": Avant, avant-courier. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AVAUNT

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

avaunt

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: AVAUNT

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

   

Romanian

  

pleacã! piei din faţa mea. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вон!. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

геть (away, beat it, begone, get, get out, hence, out, out upon you). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AVAUNT

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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