Kant

American  

[kant, kahnt] / kænt, kɑnt /

noun

1. Immanuel 1724–1804, German philosopher.

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Kant British  

/ kant, kænt /

noun

1. Immanuel (ɪˈmaːnueːl). 1724–1804, German idealist philosopher. He sought to determine the limits of man's knowledge in Critique of Pure Reason (1781) and propounded his system of ethics as guided by the categorical imperative in Critique of Practical Reason (1788)

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Example Sentences

Announcing the new bench at the weekend, Chief Justice Surya Kant said its hearing will determine "questions of law" in the case.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Last year, Kant entered into talks with both AMD and Nvidia for a new computing deal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

Her 1988 studio debut "Y Kant Tori Read," featuring an unrecognizably dolled-up and big-haired Amos, was a critical and commercial flop.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025

There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald