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ambit

Syllables: am·bit/ˈæmbɪt/

ambit noun: the extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.

Noun

ambit (plural ambits)

  1. The extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.
    • Nickle shrugged his shoulders to indicate the inexpressible ambit of Mr. Bronsky's obvious shortcomings.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
    1. (broadly) The area or sphere of control and influence of something.
      • He had invited Destiny to sweep him up in her reaping, by placing himself in the ambit of her scythe; but the sharp reaping-hook had passed him by.1913, Gilbert Parker, “‘The Alpine Fellow’”, in The Judgment House […], uniform edition, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp, Clark Co., →OCLC, book IV, pages 412–413
  2. (archaic) The boundary around a building, town, region, etc.
  3. (archaic, rare) The circumference of something circular; also, an arc; a circuit, an orbit.
  4. (obsolete) Chiefly in the plural form ambits: the open space surrounding a building, town, etc.; the grounds or precincts of a place.
    Synonyms:
    curtilage

ambit meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

ambit in Tamil

வீச்சு, சுற்றெல்லை, வளைவு, பரவு எல்லை

ambit in Urdu

گھیرا, حلقہ, حدود, پھیلاؤ

ambit in Bengali

সীমানা, পরিধি

ambit in Malayalam

range, scope, extent
ചുറ്റുപാട്, വലയം, മണ്ഡലം, അധികാരവൃത്തം, വ്യാപ്തി, വിസർപ്പണം
More languagesFewer languages
ambit in Kannada
ಎಲ್ಲೆ, ಮೇರೆ

Synonyms of ambit

Forms of ambit

pluralambits

Origin of ambit

From Late Middle English ambyte, borrowed from Latin ambitus (“circuit; circumference, perimeter; area within a perimeter; ground around a building; cycle, orbit, revolution”) (compare Late Latin ambitus (“neighbourhood; wall of a castle, monastery, or town; cloister; parish boundary”)), from ambīre + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns from verbs). Ambīre is the present active infinitive of ambiō (“to go around, to skirt; to encircle, surround”), from ambi- (“prefix meaning ‘both, on both sides’”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front; face; forehead”)) + eō (“to go, move”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”)). The English word is a doublet of ambitus.

Words formed from ambit

Phrases with ambit

Words that rhyme with ambit

Questions about ambit

What does ambit mean?
Ambit means the extent of actions, thoughts, or the meaning of words, etc.
What is ambit in Tamil?
Ambit in Tamil is வீச்சு, சுற்றெல்லை, வளைவு. See Ambit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ambit?
Ambit is a noun.
How do you pronounce ambit?
Ambit is pronounced /ˈæmbɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of ambit?
The plural of ambit is ambits.

Words near ambit in the dictionary

  1. ambisyllabicity
  2. ambisyllabics
  3. ambisyllabification
  4. ambisyllable
  5. ambisyllables
  6. ambit
  7. ambit claim
  8. ambit claims
  9. ambitendencies
  10. ambitendency
  11. Ambitho

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ambit (page history and authors); ambit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ambit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ambit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ambit (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ambit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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