English Explanatory Dictionary

optant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
  2. A person who opts into, out of, or for something.

Word forms

optant optants

Etymology

Partly (sense 1) borrowed from German Optant or Danish optant (both attested since 1907), partly from opt + ant.

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