pant
pronunciation
How to pronounce pant in British English:
UK [pænt]
How to pronounce pant in American English:
US [pænt]
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- Noun:
- the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
- a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
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- Verb:
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- utter while panting, as if out of breath
Word Origin
- pant
- pant: [15] It is the shock that makes you ‘gasp’ that lies behind the word pant. It is closely related to English fancy, fantasy, and phantom. It comes from Anglo-Norman *panter, a condensed version of Old French pantaisier ‘gasp’. This in turn went back to Vulgar Latin phantasiāre ‘gasp in horror, as if at a nightmare or ghost’, a derivative of Latin phantasia ‘apparition’ (source of English fancy and fantasy and first cousin to phantom).=> fancy, fantasy, phantom
- pant (v.)
- mid-15c., perhaps a shortening of Old French pantaisier "gasp, puff, pant, be out of breath, be in distress" (12c.), probably from Vulgar Latin *pantasiare "be oppressed with a nightmare, struggle for breathing during a nightmare," literally "to have visions," from Greek phantasioun "have or form images, subject to hallucinations," from phantasia "appearance, image, fantasy" (see phantasm). Related: Panted; panting.
- pant (n.)
- "a gasping breath," c. 1500, from pant (v.).
Example
- 1. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant .
- 2. This pant is the most basic food delivery .
- 3. We want to buy t-shirt sweater pant and other products .
- 4. Excess mulch is a landscape problem that has pant health implications .
- 5. From my place of ambush , I could hear him pant aloud as he struck the blows .