English Explanatory Dictionary

lant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
verb
  1. To flavor (ale) with aged urine.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of lanterloo (the card game).
noun
  1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).
name
  1. Abbreviation of Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean).
name
  1. A surname from Middle English.

Pronunciation

/lænt/ /lɑːnt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lant.wav

Word forms

lant lants lanting lanted

Etymology

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

Synonyms

sig launce sand eel sand lance

Related words

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