rant
UK/ɹænt/
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British/ɹant/
rant verb: to speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
Verb
rant (third-person singular simple present rants, present participle ranting, simple past and past participle ranted)
- To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
- To disseminate one's own opinions in a—typically—one-sided, strong manner.
- Harry was ranting about his boss again, but nobody paid any attention.
- To criticize by ranting.
- To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
- To dance rant steps.
Noun
rant (plural rants)
- A criticism done by ranting.
- A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
- A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.
rant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
rant in Tamil
- நீள் வசவுரை, புலம்பல், ஆத்திரத்துடன் பேசு
rant in Urdu
- گپ, لتاڑ, برا بھلا کہنا, گپ ہانکنا, شور غلغلہ مچانا, لتاڑنا
rant in Bengali
- আস্ফালন করা, উচ্চস্বরে প্রলাপ বকা
rant in Malayalam
- തൊള്ളയിടുക, വായാടുക, ഉച്ചത്തിൽ നിരർത്ഥകമായി സംസാരിക്കുക
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- rant in Kannada
- ಪೊಳ್ಳಬ್ಬರ, ಅಟಾಟೋಪ, ಒದರಾಟ, ಆಡಂಬರದ ಭಾಷಣ
Examples of rant in a sentence
- The beef of his paper was a long rant about government.
- They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.
- While he was strung out, he ranted about conspiracies that he couldn't remember when he sobered.
Forms of rant
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | rants |
| present participle | ranting |
| past participle | ranted |
| past | ranted |
| Noun | |
| plural | rants |
Origin of rant
From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), from Middle Dutch ranten (“to rant, babble, goof around”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”).
Words formed from rant
Words that rhyme with rant
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Questions about rant
- What does rant mean?
- Rant means to speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
- What is rant in Tamil?
- Rant in Tamil is நீள் வசவுரை, புலம்பல், ஆத்திரத்துடன் பேசு. See Rant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is rant?
- Rant can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce rant?
- Rant is pronounced /ɹænt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of rant?
- The past tense of rant is ranted.
Words near rant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rant (page history and authors); rant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rant (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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