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Definition: TANT |
TANTNoun1. A small scarlet arachnid. |
Date "TANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Note: Tant \Tant\, noun. [Compare to Taint tincture.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus. |
Dissent | Phrase: many men many minds; quot homines tot sententiae; tant s'en faut; il s'en faut bien;no way; by no means; count me out. |
Negation | Adverb: no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively. |
Rejoicing | Interjection: hurrah! Huzza! aha! hail! tolderolloll! Heaven be praised! io triumphe! tant mieux! so much the better. |
Smallness | Partially, in part; in a certain degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some, rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only, purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree; thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TANT |
| Specialty definitions using "TANT": Beautiful Parricide. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TANT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (aunt), French (as well, so such, that much), Swedish (Aunt, Auntie, mama), Welsh (chord, string). |
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Lyrics | Jusqu'a tant que j'ai la foi ("I Will Love Again"; performing artist: Lara Fabian) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Parmi tant d'autres... mais si pervers Un couple (1974) Tant qu'on a la santé (1966) Charleys tant (1926) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Bobonne, Bobonne! tu me ferais un monstre comme ça, ne le regarde pas tant! / [Honoré Daumier].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "TANT" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TANT" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "TANT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tant | Last name | 1,000 | 15,976 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "TANT": Interjection: hurrah! Huzza! aha! hail! tolderolloll! Heaven be praised! io triumphe! tant mieux! so much the better ♦ tant s'en faut. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TANT": impor-tant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
tant | 19 |
tant x | 3 |
pis tant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | anttay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TANT": tantalate, tantalates, tantalic, tantalise, tantalised, tantalises, tantalising, tantalite, tantalites, tantalize, tantalized, tantalizer, tantalizers, tantalizes, tantalizing, tantalizingly, tantalum, tantalums, tantalus, tantaluses, tantamount, tantara, tantaras, tantivies, tantivy, tanto, tantra, tantras, tantric, tantrum, tantrums. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TANT": acceptant, accountant, adjutant, annuitant, arrestant, assistant, attractant, blatant, cohabitant, combatant, concomitant, constant, consultant, contestant, cosurfactant, counterirritant, crepitant, cryoprotectant, debutant, decongestant, dilatant, disinfectant, disinfestant, disputant, distant, equidistant, equitant, excitant, executant, exorbitant, expectant, extant, exultant, habitant, hesitant, humectant, important, incitant, incogitant, inconstant, infestant, inhabitant, injectant, instant, interactant, irritant, manifestant, militant, mutant, natant, noncombatant, nonconstant, nonextant, nonirritant, nonmilitant, nonmutant, nonresistant, nutant, octant, oscitant, palpitant, pollutant, precipitant, protectant, protestant, reactant, reductant, rehabilitant, reluctant, repentant, reptant, resistant, resultant, retreatant, revertant, saltant, sextant, solicitant, statant, supermilitant, supernatant, surfactant, transductant, ultradistant, ultramilitant, unimportant, unreluctant, unrepentant, unresistant, vegetant, visitant, volitant. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TANT": accountants, accountantship, accountantships, adjutants, annuitants, arrestants, assistants, assistantship, assistantships, attractants, blatantly, circumstantial, circumstantialities, circumstantiality, circumstantially, circumstantiate, circumstantiated, circumstantiates, circumstantiating, cohabitants, combatants, concomitantly, concomitants, constantan, constantans, constantly, constants, consubstantial, consubstantiation, consubstantiations, consultants, consultantship, consultantships, contestants, cosurfactants, counterirritants, cryoprotectants, debutante, debutantes, debutants, decongestants, dilatants, dilettante, dilettantes, dilettanti, dilettantish, dilettantism, dilettantisms, disinfectants, disinfestants, disputants, distantly, distantness, distantnesses, equidistantly, excitants, executants, exorbitantly, expectantly, expectants, exultantly, habitants, hesitantly, humectants, importantly, incitants, inconstantly, infestants, inhabitants, injectants, instantaneities, instantaneity, instantaneous, instantaneously, instantaneousness, instantaneousnesses, instanter, instantiate, instantiated, instantiates, instantiating, instantiation, instantiations, instantly, instantness, instantnesses, instants, insubstantial, insubstantialities, insubstantiality, interactants, irritants, manifestants, militantly, militantness, militantnesses, militants, mutants, natantly, noncombatants, nonconstants, nonmilitants, nonmutants, nonresistants, octantal, octants, pollutants, postdebutante, postdebutantes, precipitantly, precipitantness, precipitantnesses, precipitants, protectants, protestants, reactants, reductants, rehabilitants, reluctantly, repentantly, resistants, resultantly, resultants, retreatants, revertants, sextants, solicitants, subdebutante, subdebutantes, substantial, substantialities, substantiality, substantially, substantialness, substantialnesses, substantials, substantiate, substantiated, substantiates, substantiating, substantiation, substantiations, substantiative, substantival, substantivally, substantive, substantively, substantiveness, substantivenesses, substantives, substantivize, substantivized, substantivizes, substantivizing, supernatants, supersubstantial, surfactants, transductants, transubstantial, transubstantiate, transubstantiated, transubstantiates, transubstantiating, transubstantiation, transubstantiations, unrepentantly, unsubstantial, unsubstantialities, unsubstantiality, unsubstantially, unsubstantiated, visitants. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ant": Jant, Trant, Vant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: ant, att, tan, tat. | |
-2 letters: an, at, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: natty, taint, tanto, taunt, titan. | |
+2 letters: anatto, attain, attend, attent, attorn, attune, batten, extant, fatten, gnatty, intact, latent, latten, lattin, mattin, mutant, natant, natter, notate, nutant, nutate, octant, patent, patten, rattan, ratten, ratton, taints, talent, tanist, tantra, tartan, taunts, tauten, tenant, tetany, titans, titian, titman, truant, tyrant. | |
+3 letters: anattos, annatto, antifat, antipot, antitax, arnatto, arnotto, attains, attaint, attends, attorns, attuned, attunes, battens, batting, blatant, cantata, catmint, catting, contact, dentate, distant, dittany, entrant, entreat, etchant, fantast, fattens, fatting, flatten, gantlet, hatting, instant, instate, intrant, intreat, iterant, latents, lattens, lattins, mantlet, matting, mattins, mutants, natters, nattier, nattily, navette, neatest, nictate, nitrate, notated, notates, nutated, nutates, nutmeat, octants, ottoman, patents, patient, pattens, pattern, patting, rattans, ratteen, rattens, ratting, rattons, rattoon, reptant, saltant, satinet, sextant, statant, stating, station, taction, tainted, talents, tangent, tanists, tannate, tannest, tantara, tantivy, tantras, tantric, tantrum, tartana, tartans, tarting, tasting, tatting, taunted, taunter, tautens, tauting, tenants, tentage, ternate, tertian, tetanal, tetanic, tetanus, titania, titanic, titians, titrant, tomenta, transit, truants, tyrants, unstate, vatting, whatnot. | |
+4 letters: abetment, abetting, abutment, abutting, adjutant, alterant, anisette, annattos, annotate, anteater, antedate, antepast, antetype, antevert, antiatom, anticity, anticult, antidote, antileft, antiriot, antirust, antismut, antistat, antitank, antitype, antsiest, appetent, aquatint, arnattos, arnottos, astatine, atlantes, attained, attainer, attaints, attended, attendee, attender, attiring, attorned, attorney, attuning, autunite, banditti, battened, battener, battings, battling, betatron, blatting, botanist, cantatas, castanet, catenate, catmints, chatting, citation, coattend, constant, contacts, contract, contrast, cotenant, debutant, dentated, detonate, dilatant, dotation, dratting, earthnut, edentate, entastic, entrants, entreats, entreaty, equitant, estating, etchants, excitant, exultant, faintest, fantasts, fattened, fattener, fetation, flattens, flatting, gantlets, gauntest, gauntlet, gnathite, gnattier, habitant, hesitant, incitant, initiate, instants, instated, instates, interact, intimate, intonate, intranet, intrants, intreats, intubate, irritant, latently, latinity, litigant, lutanist, mantelet, mantlets, martinet, mattings, militant, mutating, mutation, nanowatt, nastiest, natality, natantly, natation, natatory, nativist, nativity, nattered, nattiest, naturist, navettes, nettable, nictated, nictates, nitrated, nitrates, nitrator, nonfatty, notating, notation, nutating, nutation, nuthatch, nutmeats, nystatin, octantal, oscitant, ostinati, ostinato, ottomans, outeaten, outpaint, outstand, outthank, outvaunt, pancetta, pantsuit, patented, patentee, patently, patentor, patients, patinate, patterns, pattypan, patulent, petulant, phantast, pittance, plantlet, platting, potation, punctate, quantity, ratteens, rattened, rattener, rattling, rattoons, reactant, reattain, retirant, rotating, rotation, rutilant, sanctity, sanitate, satanist, satinets, saturant, scantest, scatting, setenant, sextants, slattern, slatting, spatting, stagnant, stagnate, standout, standpat, stannite, starting, stations, stotinka, straiten, strontia, stuntman, swatting, taciturn, taconite, tactions, tainting, talented, tangents, tangiest, tanistry, tannates, tantalic, tantalum, tantalus, tantaras, tantrums, tarantas, tarlatan, tarletan, tartanas, tartness, tattings, tattling, taunters, taunting, tautened, tautness, tautonym, tawniest, taxation, tegmenta, tenacity, tenanted, tenantry, tentacle, tentages, tertians, tetanics, tetanies, tetanise, tetanize, tetanoid, tetragon, thanatos, thionate, threaten, tinplate, titanate, titaness, titanias, titanism, titanite, titanium, titanous, tithonia, titrants, toasting, tolerant, tonality, totaling, toxicant, traction, transact, transect, transept, transits, transmit, trapnest, trapunto, trawlnet, treating, triptane, truanted, truantry, truncate, tunicate, turncoat, uintaite, unhatted, unmatted, unstated, unstates, untasted, untaught, urticant, vegetant, vendetta, visitant, volitant, wattling, whatnots, xanthate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 4E 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 004E 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54354854 |
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