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emmet
1[ em-it ]
noun
- an ant.
Emmet
2[ em-it ]
noun
- Robert, 1778–1803, Irish patriot.
- a male given name.
Emmet
2/ ˈɛmɪt /
noun
- EmmetRobert17781803MIrishPOLITICS: nationalist Robert. 1778–1803, Irish nationalist, executed for leading an uprising for Irish independence
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Example Sentences
Robert Emmet for an abortive attempt to seize Dublin Castle was condemned and executed in 1803.
The first of these was a tract “What Emmet means in 1915,” significant of the direction in which minds were turning at the time.
Doctor Thomas Addis Emmet, only just dead, over ninety, in his younger years as a busy medical practitioner never kept a horse.
Those of Pinkney and Emmet, however, contained much florid "eloquence."
The cattle have been with Emmet's company from the time they left Nauvoo.
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