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needment

needment noun: something needed or wanted.

Noun

needment (plural needments)

  1. (archaic) Something needed or wanted.
    Synonyms:
    must, necessity
  2. (archaic, in plural) outfit; necessary luggage
    • His wearie limbes upon: and eke behind,
      His scrip did hang, in which his needments he did bind1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • We went staff in hand, without knapsacks, and carrying each his needments tied up in a pocket handkerchief1847, William Wordsworth, Autobiographical Memoranda

Synonyms of needment

Forms of needment

pluralneedments

Origin of needment

From need + -ment.

Questions about needment

What does needment mean?
Needment means something needed or wanted.
What part of speech is needment?
Needment is a noun.
What is the plural of needment?
The plural of needment is needments.

Words near needment in the dictionary

  1. needliest
  2. needling
  3. needlingly
  4. needlings
  5. needly
  6. needment
  7. needments
  8. needn't
  9. needn't've
  10. needna
  11. neednae

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