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

He is now chiding and beslaving the emmet that stands before him, and who, for all that we can discover, is as good an emmet as himself.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

"I thought my master a wise man; but this man makes my master a fool," says the housemaid in Dean Swift; and it is thus that the emmet Blazer befools you, turn where you may.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

In an ant-republic, laws are instinctively obeyed quite as implicitly as though they were intelligibly proclaimed to all of the emmet citizens.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward

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

Then up and spake the youngest Trold,    As emmet small to view: “O here is come a Christian man,    But verily he shall rue.”

From Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads by Borrow, George Henry