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

From a wise emmet, well sustain'd On what her industry had gain'd, A grasshopper some aid desir'd.

From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Park, Marmaduke

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)

I am an emmet, that mankind shall tread under foot; not a hornet, that they shall complain of my sting.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 by Ross, James

My eighth is in emmet, not in ant.

From Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various