pant

Meanings

1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
2. Eager longing.
3. A violent palpitation of the heart.

1. To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
2. To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
3. To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
4. Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
5. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
6. To heave, as the breast.
7. To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.

1. A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
2. Of or relating to pants.

1. Any public drinking fountain.

1. A river in Essex, England, which forms the upper part of the Blackwater.
2. A locality in Austwick parish, North Yorkshire, England.
3. A village in Llanymynech and Pant parish, Shropshire, England, on the border with Wales (OS grid ref SJ2722).
4. A locality in Ayrshire, Scotland.
5. A place in Wales:
6. A hamlet in Llandegla community, Denbighshire (OS grid ref SJ2052).
7. A hamlet in Caerwys community, Flintshire (OS grid ref SJ1474).
8. A hamlet in Botwnnog community, Gwynedd (OS grid ref SH2132).
9. A village and community in Merthyr Tydfil borough (OS grid ref SO0609).
10. A hamlet in Dwyriw community, Powys (OS grid ref SJ0400).
11. A settlement in Gresford community, Wrexham borough (OS grid ref SJ3555).
12. A settlement in Rhosllanerchrugog community, Wrexham borough (OS grid ref SJ2945).

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank. Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).