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sept

UK/sɛpt/

sept noun: a clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland. Also the simple past and past participle of seep.

Noun

sept (plural septs)

  1. A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
    • The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.1842, Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, volume 2
    • Never need you fear
      for a single thane of your sept or nation,
      young warriors or old.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 54
  2. An enclosure; a railing.

Proper noun capitalized: Sept

Sept

  1. (Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, abbreviation) Alternative form of Sep: Abbreviation of September.
  2. A surname.

Also used as

sept is also the simple past and past participle of seep.

sept meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

sept in Hindi

सेप्ट

sept in Urdu

سیپٹ

sept in Bengali

সেপ্ট করা

sept in Malayalam

സെപ്റ്റ്, സെപ്ത്

Forms of sept

pluralsepts

Plural of sept: septs

Origin of sept

A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).

On analogy with creep → crept, weep → wept etc.

Words formed from sept

Words that rhyme with sept

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Questions about sept

What does sept mean?
Sept means a clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
What is sept in Hindi?
Sept in Hindi is सेप्ट. See Sept meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sept?
Sept can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sept?
Sept is pronounced /sɛpt/ (UK).
What is the plural of sept?
The plural of sept is septs.

Words near sept in the dictionary

  1. sepsid
  2. sepsids
  3. sepsin
  4. sepsins
  5. sepsis
  6. sept
  7. sept-
  8. Sept-Îles
  9. Sept.
  10. septa
  11. septa-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sept (page history and authors); Sept (page history and authors); sept (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sept (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sept (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sept (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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