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olifants

olifants is the plural of olifant.

Meaning of olifant

Noun

olifant (plural olifants)

  1. (historical) An ancient hunting horn, made of ivory.
    • And he sang them the staves of the Olifant, the magic horn,—how Roland would not sound it in his pride, and sounded it at Turpin’s bidding, but too late[.]1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 35, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 479
  2. (obsolete) An elephant.
    • She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso

Proper noun capitalized: Olifants

the Olifants

  1. Any of a number of rivers of South Africa.

Questions about olifants

What does olifants mean?
Olifants means any of a number of rivers of South Africa.
What is olifants the plural of?
Olifants is the plural of olifant.
What part of speech is olifants?
Olifants is a proper noun.

Words near olifants in the dictionary

  1. Olicity
  2. olid
  3. oliebol
  4. oliebollen
  5. olifant
  6. olifants
  7. olig-
  8. oligacanthorhynchid
  9. oligacanthorhynchids
  10. oligaemia
  11. oligaemias

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