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basant

basant is the alternative form of bezant.

Meaning of bezant

Noun

bezant (plural bezants)

  1. A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
    Synonyms:
    solidus
  2. A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.
    • One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...].1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 575

Proper noun capitalized: Basant

Basant

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Vasant.

Forms of basant

pluralbasants

Origin of basant

Transliteration of Bengali বসন্ত (bośonto), Odia ବସନ୍ତ (basanta), Hindi बसंत (basant).

Phrases with basant

Questions about basant

What is basant the alternative form of?
Basant is the alternative form of bezant.
What part of speech is basant?
Basant is a proper noun.

Words near basant in the dictionary

  1. basanite
  2. basanites
  3. basanitic
  4. basanitoid
  5. basans
  6. basant
  7. Basant Kunj
  8. basants
  9. basapophyses
  10. basapophysis
  11. Basarabeasca

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Adapted from Wiktionary: basant (page history and authors); Basant (page history and authors); bezant (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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