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jilt

/d͡ʒɪlt/

jilt noun: a woman who readily casts aside her lover.

Noun

jilt (plural jilts)

  1. A woman who readily casts aside her lover.
    • And has she been long a Jilt? has she practiſed the Trade for any Time?1683, Thomas Otway, The Soldiers Fortune

Verb

jilt (third-person singular simple present jilts, present participle jilting, simple past and past participle jilted)

  1. (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.
    • Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 4, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 20
    • The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

jilt meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

jilt in Urdu

to jilt
جھانسا دینا

jilt in Malayalam

പ്രേമിച്ച് വഞ്ചിക്കുക

jilt in Kannada

ನಂಬಿಕೆಕಳೆ, ಪ್ರಣಯದ್ರೋಹ ಮಾಡು, ಪ್ರಣಯಿಯನ್ನು ಉತ್ತೇಜಿಸಿ ನಿರಾಕರಿಸು, ತ್ಯಜಿಸು, ಪ್ರಣಯಭಂಗಮಾಡು

jilt in Arabic

woman who jilts a lover
نابذة لحبيبها nābiḏa liḥabībihā
to jilt
نَبَذَ nabaḏa, أَهْمَلَ ʔahmala

Forms of jilt

Noun
pluraljilts
Verb
third-person singular presentjilts
present participlejilting
past participlejilted
pastjilted

Origin of jilt

Contraction of jillet (“a giddy girl, a jill-flirt”).

Words formed from jilt

Words that rhyme with jilt

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about jilt

What does jilt mean?
Jilt means a woman who readily casts aside her lover.
What is jilt in Urdu?
Jilt in Urdu is جھانسا دینا. See Jilt meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is jilt?
Jilt can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce jilt?
Jilt is pronounced /d͡ʒɪlt/.
What is the plural of jilt?
The plural of jilt is jilts.

Words near jilt in the dictionary

  1. jillstraps
  2. Jilly
  3. Jilolo
  4. Jilong
  5. Jilpander
  6. jilt
  7. jilted
  8. jiltee
  9. jiltees
  10. jilter
  11. jilters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jilt (page history and authors); jilt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jilt (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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