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drant

drant verb: to drawl; to drone.

Verb

drant (third-person singular simple present drants, present participle dranting, simple past and past participle dranted)

  1. (Scotland, ambitransitive, dialectal) To drawl; to drone.

Noun

drant (plural drants)

  1. (Scotland, dialectal) A droning tone.

Proper noun capitalized: Drant

Drant (plural Drants)

  1. A surname.

Forms of drant

Verb
third-person singular presentdrants
present participledranting
past participledranted
pastdranted
Noun
pluraldrants
Proper noun
pluralDrants

Origin of drant

From Scots drant, draunt (“droning or drawling tone”), borrowed from Scottish Gaelic dranndan, draundan (“hum, buzzing, complaint, growl, snarl”), akin to Irish drantán (“hum, buzzing, growl”).

Questions about drant

What does drant mean?
Drant means to drawl; to drone.
What part of speech is drant?
Drant can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of drant?
The past tense of drant is dranted.

Words near drant in the dictionary

  1. drank with the flies
  2. dranken
  3. dranken from the furry cup
  4. dranks
  5. drano
  6. drant
  7. dranted
  8. dranting
  9. drants
  10. dranyen
  11. dranyens

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