glut
/ɡlʌt/
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glut noun: an excess, too much.
Noun
glut (plural gluts)
- An excess, too much.
- a glut of the market
- A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
- That which is swallowed.
- And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- Something that fills up an opening.
- Synonyms:
- clog
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.2013, Nicholas R. Bell, A Measure of the Earth, page 39
- A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- Five goals scored by one player in a game.
- Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal
Verb
glut (third-person singular simple present gluts, present participle glutting, simple past and past participle glutted)
- To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- to glut one's appetite
- Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords
That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 42
glut meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
glut in Hindi
- to glut
- पाटना pāṭnā
glut in Urdu
- افراط, بھر مار, ہوکے سے کھانا, پیٹ بھر کھانا
glut in Bengali
- অতিরিক্ত সরবরাহ, প্রাচুর্য, চাহিদার চেয়ে বেশি থাকা
glut in Malayalam
- ആവശ്യത്തിലധികം കൊടുക്കുക, വിഴുങ്ങുക, പൂരിതമാക്കുക, അമിതഭക്ഷണം കഴിക്കുക
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- glut in Kannada
- ಭೋಗಾತಿರೇಕ, ಮಿತಿಮೀರಿದ ಭೋಗ, ಮಿತಿಮೀರಿದ ಸರಬರಾಜು, ಬಿರಿಯುವಷ್ಟು ತಿನ್ನು
Examples of glut in a sentence
- Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
- “The glut is getting bigger every day, and now you’re starting to have to compete more on price,” says Jim Mikesell, Dog Star’s CEO.2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired:
- [T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “Preface”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume I, London: John...
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Forms of glut
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gluts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gluts |
| present participle | glutting |
| past participle | glutted |
| past | glutted |
Origin of glut
Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).
Words formed from glut
Words that rhyme with glut
Questions about glut
- What does glut mean?
- Glut means an excess, too much.
- What is glut in Hindi?
- Glut in Hindi is पाटना (pāṭnā). See Glut meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use glut in a sentence?
- Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
- What part of speech is glut?
- Glut can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce glut?
- Glut is pronounced /ɡlʌt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of glut?
- The plural of glut is gluts.
Words near glut in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: glut (page history and authors); पाटना (Hindi) (page history and authors); glut (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Glut (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glut (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glut (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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