Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), chiefly dialect An ant.
- noun (Zoöl.) the
wryneck{3} , a type of bird related to the woodpeckers.
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- noun archaic An
ant - noun Cornish, pejorative A
tourist
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just because you knew the guy personally … .. on February 14, 2009 at 11: 13 pm | Reply emmet
The Italian Job « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Are they going to be on sale?! darcy4life (1/29/2009 11: 22: 23 AM) i would totaly buy an emmet doll
MTV Staffers Unbox The Magical Edward Cullen Doll » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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Melissa on Apr 11, 2008 sorry im a little bit over sensative about these books lol and edward is a junior along with alice and bella. rosalie, emmet, and jasper are all seniors btw luv the article rockcheerbabelec@aim.com lecia on Apr 13, 2008
Stephenie Meyer Talks More About the Twilight Movie « FirstShowing.net 2008
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June 6th, 2008 5: 30 pm ET oh!! this is easy "NO" emmet ireland
Blitzer: Does McCain have a chance in California this fall? 2008
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HAHHAHHA! yeah, twilighters lets make a band called emmet and the cullends with lumberjacks!
Kellan Lutz On The Book Rock Of ‘Twilight’ And ‘Harry Potter’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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The only REAL vampire in the cullen family is Jasper I believe.. or was tha emmet? whoever was the civil war dude
Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart: Not A Couple (Unless They Are) 2010
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The learned Sanskritist, H.H. Wilson, quotes the name Pippilika = ant-gold, given by the people of Little Thibet to the precious dust thrown up in the emmet heaps.
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“The baker told me yesterday,” continued Enoch, shaking out another emmet that had run merrily up his thigh,
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And let him be a man that hath a care of all things that are created, even unto the tiny emmet that creepeth along the ground.
The Epic of Kings Firdausi 2002
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For as ESOP teacheth, even the fly hath her spleen, and the emmet [ant] is not without her choler; and both together many times find means whereby, though the eagle lays her eggs in JUPITER'S lap, yet by one way or other, she escapeth not requital of her wrong done [to] the emmet.
Sir Francis Drake Revived Philip [Editor] Nichols
bilby commented on the word emmet
WeirdNet is refusing to say the a-word.
April 4, 2009
rolig commented on the word emmet
"Once a dream did weave a shade
O'er my Angel-guarded bed,
That an emmet lost its way
Where on grass methought I lay."
– Wm. Blake, "A Dream", Songs of Innocence (1789)
October 9, 2015