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mit

mit is the dated form of mitt.

Meaning of mitt

Noun

mitt (plural mitts)

  1. A mitten
  2. An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
  3. (especially, in plural, informal) A hand.
    • Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!

See all 4 meanings of mitt

Noun capitalized: MIT

MIT (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of monoiodotyrosine.

Proper noun capitalized: MIT

MIT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    • Second, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and the University of Michigan, not MIT. An MIT spokesperson said in a Wednesday email: “We have no enrollment record or information that Ted Kaczynski ever attended MIT.”2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025
    1. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of MIT License.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Manukau Institute of Technology.

Phrase capitalized: MIT

MIT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of market if touched.

Forms of mit

pluralmits

Words formed from mit

Phrases with mit

Questions about mit

What is mit the dated form of?
Mit is the dated form of mitt.
What part of speech is mit?
Mit can be a noun, a proper noun or a phrase.
What is the plural of mit?
The plural of mit is mits.

Words near mit in the dictionary

  1. misère ouvert
  2. misères
  3. miséricorde
  4. miséricordes
  5. misíthra
  6. mit
  7. Mit Afifi
  8. MIT License
  9. mit-
  10. Mitaka
  11. Mitanni

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mit (page history and authors); MIT (page history and authors); mitt (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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