emmet

¹ American  

[em-it] / ˈɛm ɪt /

noun

Chiefly Dialect.

1. an ant.

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Emmet ² American  

[em-it] / ˈɛm ɪt /

noun

1. Robert, 1778–1803, Irish patriot.

2. a male given name.

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emmet ¹ British  

/ ˈɛmɪt /

noun

1. an archaic or dialect word for ant

2. dialect a tourist or holiday-maker

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Emmet ² British  

/ ˈɛmɪt /

noun

1. Robert. 1778–1803, Irish nationalist, executed for leading an uprising for Irish independence

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Etymology

Origin of emmet

before 900; Middle English emete, Old English ǣmette ant

Example Sentences

And I have been through the woods, and through the woods, And could see nothing but an emmet.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

Once a dream did wave a shade O'er my angel-guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way When on grass methought I lay.

From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

When a little emmet, standing on its ant-hill, could get a peep into infinity, how could he think he saw a corner in it?-a retired corner?

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

How oft, when purple evening ting'd the west, We watch'd the emmet to her grainy nest; Welcom'd the wild-bee home on weary wing, Laden with sweets, the choicest of the spring!

From Poems by Rogers, Samuel

Ant, ant, n. a small insect: the emmet or pismire.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various