dight
/daɪt/
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dight adjective: adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
Adjective
dight (comparative dighter, superlative dightest)
- Adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
- Right against the eastern gate, / Where the great sun begins his state, / Robed in flames, and amber light, / The clouds in thousand liveries dight[…].1645, John Milton, L'Allegro
- […]the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight.1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114
Verb
dight (third-person singular simple present dights, present participle dighting, simple past and past participle dight or dighted)
- To deal with; to handle.
- To adorn, decorate or furnish; to dress, array, or deck out.
- Come, Colin, dight your cheeks and baniſh care1776, Ramsay, Allan, Poems on Several Occasions, volume 1, Aberdeen: J. Boyle, page 176
- […]It sways upon a billow foam-befrilled, / Dighted with precious gems[…]1898, Florence G. Attenborough, "An Opium Dream"
- To make ready; to prepare
- Do thou dight thee a twenty-banked ship right good1887, Morris, William, The Odyssey of Homer: Done Into English Verse, volume I, London: Reeves & Turner, page 11
Adverb
dight
- suitably, appropriately, properly
- Synonyms:
- dightly
dight meaning in Tamil
dight in Tamil
- அணிகலன் பூட்டப்பட்ட
Synonyms of dight
Forms of dight
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | dighter |
| superlative | dightest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | dights |
| present participle | dighting |
| past participle | dight |
| past | dight |
| past participle | dighted |
| past | dighted |
Origin of dight
From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-West Germanic *dihtōn (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *dīkaną (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵ-, *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dictāre; or perhaps from Latin dictāre (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.
Words formed from dight
Words that rhyme with dight
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- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- uptight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- hight
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- sleight
- spite
- spright
- wite
Questions about dight
- What does dight mean?
- Dight means adorned, decorated, or furnished (with); dressed, arrayed, or decked out.
- What is dight in Tamil?
- Dight in Tamil is அணிகலன் பூட்டப்பட்ட. See Dight meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dight?
- Dight can be an adjective, a verb or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce dight?
- Dight is pronounced /daɪt/ (UK).
Words near dight in the dictionary
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