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lant

/lænt/

lant noun: aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content. Also the obsolete form of lanterloo.

Noun (1)

lant (uncountable)

  1. Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
    Synonyms:
    sig

Verb

lant (third-person singular simple present lants, present participle lanting, simple past and past participle lanted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Noun (2)

lant (plural lants)

  1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).

Proper noun (1) capitalized: LANT

LANT

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Atlantic (Atlantic Ocean).

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Lant

Lant (plural Lants)

  1. A surname from Middle English.

Also used as

lant is also the obsolete form of lanterloo.

Synonyms of lant

Forms of lant

Verb
third-person singular presentlants
present participlelanting
past participlelanted
pastlanted
Noun
plurallants
Proper noun
pluralLants

Origin of lant

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

Compare lance.

Perhaps from Middle English langet, a derivative of lang (“long”), denoting someone who lived by a long strip of ground.

Questions about lant

What does lant mean?
Lant means aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.
What part of speech is lant?
Lant can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lant?
Lant is pronounced /lænt/.
What is the plural of lant?
The plural of lant is lants.

Words near lant in the dictionary

  1. lansquenets
  2. lansquenette
  3. lansquenettes
  4. Lansson
  5. Lansvale
  6. lant
  7. lantaca
  8. lantacas
  9. Lantag
  10. lantaka
  11. lantakas

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