pant

See also: Pant and pant-

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pănt, IPA(key): /pænt/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ænt

Etymology 1

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, “I am subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  2. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Translations
References
  • pant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • “pant” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

Verb

pant (third-person singular simple present pants, present participle panting, simple past and past participle panted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.
    • Dryden
      Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
    • Shelley
      There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
    • 1749, John Cleland, “part 2”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:
      Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed
  2. (transitive) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
    • Herbert
      Then shall our hearts pant thee.
  3. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
    • Bible, Psalms xlii. 1
      As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
    • Alexander Pope
      Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
  4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
  5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
    • Alexander Pope
      The whispering breeze / Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
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Etymology 2

From pants

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
  2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.
    Pant leg
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

Unknown

Noun

pant (plural pants)

  1. a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England

References

  • PMSA page with several examples
  • OED 2nd edition

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

pant m

  1. hinge

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta or pantene)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural panter, definite plural pantene)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n (definite singular pantet, indefinite plural pant, definite plural panta)

  1. pawn (item sold to a pawn shop)
  2. a mortgage
  3. security (on a loan)
  4. a forfeit (in a game)
  5. a pledge

Noun

pant m (definite singular panten, indefinite plural pantar, definite plural pantane)

  1. a (refundable) deposit (e.g. on bottles)

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Band

Noun

pȁnt m (Cyrillic spelling па̏нт)

  1. hinge

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German pant and Old Norse pantr

Noun

pant n

  1. pledge, item deposited at a pawnshop or otherwise given as a security; money returned when a bottle or similar is recycled
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