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half-pant

half-pant noun: shorts.

Noun

half-pant

  1. (India) Shorts.
    • Children wear half pant-banyan or shirt, or knicker and shirt. Middle class men of the older generation wear dhoti-kurta or pyjama-kurta, and sadari (a kind of jacket), over the kurta.2011, Bhaskar Majumder, Rethinking Villages, page 102
    • A normal tendency for buying a gift is that it should be attractive like the saree of a woman, useful like the trousers of a man and costs like the half pant of a child.2014, P. Shankar, Where Gods Die, page 146

half-pant meaning in Tamil and Kannada

half-pant in Tamil

அரைக் காற்சட்டை

half-pant in Kannada

ಚಡ್ಡಿ, ಚೆಡ್ಡಿ, ತೊಡೆಚಲ್ಲಣ

Forms of half-pant

alternative formhalf pant

Origin of half-pant

From half + pant.

Questions about half-pant

What does half-pant mean?
Half-pant means shorts.
What is half-pant in Tamil?
Half-pant in Tamil is அரைக் காற்சட்டை. See Half-pant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is half-pant?
Half-pant is a noun.

Words near half-pant in the dictionary

  1. half-ops
  2. half-orc
  3. half-orcs
  4. half-orphan
  5. half-orphans
  6. half-pant
  7. half-pass
  8. half-passed
  9. half-passes
  10. half-passing
  11. half-past-six

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-pant (page history and authors); half-pant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); half-pant (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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