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sart

sart noun: an assart, or clearing; land cleared for agriculture.

Noun

sart (plural sarts)

  1. (UK, obsolete) An assart, or clearing; land cleared for agriculture.
    • And the syte of an olde mylne with a littel sart that lyes betwixt the mylne and the Ellers with other land in Arthington and all the water within his fee for helping and sustayneing of the said nownree1859, John Jones, quoting Monasticon Anglicanum, volume 1, c. 1450, The History and Antiquities of Harewood, in the County of York, page 223

Proper noun capitalized: Sart

Sart

  1. A town in Manisa Province, Turkey, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Lydia.
  2. (historical) Sedentary Turk and Tajik people from Central Asia.

Synonyms of sart

Forms of sart

pluralsarts

Origin of sart

From Middle English sart, from Old French sart, from Medieval Latin sarrītum (“to hoe”).

From Turkish Sart and Ottoman Turkish صارت (Sart), from Byzantine Greek Σάρδεις (Sárdeis), ultimately from Lydian 𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭 (sfar). Doublet of Sardis.

Phrases with sart

Questions about sart

What does sart mean?
Sart means an assart, or clearing; land cleared for agriculture.
What part of speech is sart?
Sart can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of sart?
The plural of sart is sarts.

Words near sart in the dictionary

  1. sarsnet
  2. sarsnets
  3. sarsparilla
  4. sarsparillas
  5. sarsparilloside
  6. sart
  7. sartage
  8. sartain
  9. sartainties
  10. sartainty
  11. sartan

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