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kat

kat noun: an ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound. Also the alternative spelling of khat.

Noun

kat (plural kats)

  1. An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.

Phrase capitalized: KAT

KAT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of kill all taigs.

Proper noun capitalized: Kat

Kat

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Katharine and Katherine.
    • During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her...1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36
    • A special federal grand jury has indicted Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh alongside other protesters who allegedly blocked vehicles outside of a federal immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois.2025 October 29, Ryan J. Reilly and Natasha Korecki, “DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests”, in NBC News

Also used as

kat is also the alternative spelling of khat.

kat is also the alternative form of gat.

kat meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Kannada and Gujarati

kat in Bengali

ক্যাট

kat in Telugu

కాట్

kat in Kannada

ಕ್ಯಾಟ್

kat in Gujarati

કેટ
More languagesFewer languages
kat in Odia
କ୍ଯ଼ାଟ୍
kat in Nepali
क्याट

Forms of kat

pluralkats

Origin of kat

From Egyptian kꜣt.

Words formed from kat

Phrases with kat

Words that rhyme with kat

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about kat

What does kat mean?
Kat means an ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.
What is kat in Bengali?
Kat in Bengali is ক্যাট. See Kat meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is kat?
Kat can be a noun, a phrase or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kat?
The plural of kat is kats.

Words near kat in the dictionary

  1. kaswas
  2. Kasza
  3. Kaszas
  4. Kaszuba
  5. Kaszubas
  6. kat
  7. kata
  8. kata factor
  9. kata factors
  10. Kata Kolok
  11. kata thermometer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kat (page history and authors); KAT (page history and authors); Kat (page history and authors); kat (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kat (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kat (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kat (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kat (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); kat (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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