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supplicant

Syllables: sup·pli·cantUS/ˈsʌplɪkənt/

supplicant adjective: begging, pleading, supplicating.

Adjective

supplicant (comparative more supplicant, superlative most supplicant)

  1. begging, pleading, supplicating

Noun

supplicant (plural supplicants)

  1. one who comes to humbly ask or petition
    • It recalled all the vivid hopes and beliefs of her childhood, when she was wont to kneel before some lovely image, till the face seemed to smile encouragement, and the little supplicant felt as if beneath a mother's eye.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 185
  2. A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.

supplicant meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Odia

supplicant in Tamil

கெஞ்சி வேண்டுபவர், கெஞ்சி வேண்டுகிற

supplicant in Kannada

ತಗ್ಗಿಬಗ್ಗಿ ಬೇಡು, ಕೀಳ್ಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡು ಕೇಳು

supplicant in Odia

supplicant
ଭିକାରି bhikāri

Forms of supplicant

Adjective
comparativemore supplicant
superlativemost supplicant
Noun
pluralsupplicants

Origin of supplicant

From Latin supplicans (“supplicating, bowing down”), from supplicō (“kneel, bow down, request”), from sub- (“lower”) + plicō (“fold”).

Words formed from supplicant

Questions about supplicant

What does supplicant mean?
Supplicant means begging, pleading, supplicating.
What is supplicant in Tamil?
Supplicant in Tamil is கெஞ்சி வேண்டுபவர், கெஞ்சி வேண்டுகிற. See Supplicant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is supplicant?
Supplicant can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce supplicant?
Supplicant is pronounced /ˈsʌplɪkənt/ (US).

Words near supplicant in the dictionary

  1. suppliancy
  2. suppliant
  3. suppliantly
  4. suppliants
  5. supplicancy
  6. supplicant
  7. supplicantly
  8. supplicants
  9. supplicat
  10. supplicate
  11. supplicated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supplicant (page history and authors); supplicant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); supplicant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଭିକାରି (Odia) (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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