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weet

/wiːt/

weet verb: to know. Also the alternative form of wet.

Verb

weet (third-person singular simple present weets, present participle weeting, simple past and past participle weeted)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To know.
    • But Glauce, ſeeing all that chaunced there, / VVell vveeting hovv their errour to aſſoyle, / Full glad of ſo good end, to them drevv nere, / And her ſalevved vvith ſeemly belaccoyle, / Ioyous to ſee her ſafe after long toyle.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 25, page 87
    • The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Also used as

weet is also the alternative form of wet.

Forms of weet

third-person singular presentweets
present participleweeting
past participleweeted
pastweeted

Origin of weet

From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (“to know”). More at wit.

Phrases with weet

Words that rhyme with weet

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about weet

What does weet mean?
Weet means to know.
What part of speech is weet?
Weet is a verb.
How do you pronounce weet?
Weet is pronounced /wiːt/.
What is the past tense of weet?
The past tense of weet is weeted.

Words near weet in the dictionary

  1. Weesp
  2. weest
  3. weested
  4. weesting
  5. weests
  6. weet
  7. weet weet
  8. weet weets
  9. Weet-Bix
  10. weet-weet
  11. weet-weets

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