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jant

jant is the obsolete form of jaunt.

Meaning of jaunt

Verb

jaunt (third-person singular simple present jaunts, present participle jaunting, simple past and past participle jaunted)

  1. (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
  2. (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To jolt; to jounce.
    • To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back[…]four or five miles through the streets of London‥after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner1818, Cobbett's Weekly Political Register
  4. (obsolete) To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.

See all 6 meanings of jaunt

Forms of jant

third-person singular presentjants
present participlejanting
past participlejanted
pastjanted

Questions about jant

What is jant the obsolete form of?
Jant is the obsolete form of jaunt.

Words near jant in the dictionary

  1. Janson
  2. JanSporting
  3. Janssen
  4. Janssens
  5. Janssenses
  6. jant
  7. janted
  8. janthina
  9. janthinas
  10. janthinid
  11. janthinids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jant (page history and authors); jaunt (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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