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)
- To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
- To ride on a jaunting car.
- 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
- To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.
Forms of jant
| third-person singular present | jants |
|---|---|
| present participle | janting |
| past participle | janted |
| past | janted |
Questions about jant
- What is jant the obsolete form of?
- Jant is the obsolete form of jaunt.
Words near jant in the dictionary
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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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