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nett

nett is the alternative spelling of net.

nett is the obsolete form of net.

Meaning of net

Adjective

net (not comparable)

  1. Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
    • net wine
  2. Remaining after expenses or deductions.
    • Near-synonym: take-home
    Synonyms:
    clear, take-home
  3. Final; end.
    • net result; net conclusion
  4. (obsolete) Good, desirable; clean, decent, clear.
    • Her brest all naked, as net iuory, / Without adorne of gold or siluer bright […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Proper noun capitalized: Nett

Nett (plural Netts)

  1. A surname.

Forms of nett

Noun
pluralnetts
Proper noun
pluralNetts

Origin of nett

* As a German surname, from Middle High German nett, from Old French net (“clean”), ultimately from Latin *nittus. * As an Irish surname, variant of McNett.

Questions about nett

What does nett mean?
Nett means a surname.
What is nett the alternative spelling of?
Nett is the alternative spelling of net.
What part of speech is nett?
Nett is a proper noun.

Words near nett in the dictionary

  1. netsurfed
  2. netsurfer
  3. netsurfers
  4. netsurfing
  5. netsurfs
  6. nett
  7. nettable
  8. nettastomatid
  9. nettastomatids
  10. nettastomid
  11. nettastomids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nett (page history and authors); Nett (page history and authors); net (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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