Verb

vant (third-person singular simple present vants, present participle vanting, simple past and past participle vanted)Category:English lemmas#VANTCategory:English verbs#VANTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. Pronunciation spelling of wantCategory:English pronunciation spellings#VANT.
   • 1890, John Habberton, All He Knew‎:

     "Come, now, deacon," said the shopkeeper, abruptly dropping the cat, "you can turn up your nose at my ideas all you vant, but you mustn't turn it up at my shurch.

     Category:English terms with quotations#VANT

   • 1922, Various, Best Short Stories‎:

     "Ay vant to get married," blushed Pete, who is by way of being a Scandinavian.

     Category:English terms with quotations#VANT

   • 1992 January 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     His boss, A.J. Cohen, is livid: "You vant I should spit right in your face!?

     Category:English terms with quotations#VANT

See also

• vant-courier

Etymology 1

From FrenchCategory:Antillean Creole terms derived from French#VANT ventre.

Etymology 2

From FrenchCategory:Antillean Creole terms derived from French#VANT vente.

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Bourguignon terms inherited from Latin#VANTCategory:Bourguignon terms derived from Latin#VANT ventus.

Noun

vant m (plural vants)Category:Bourguignon lemmas#VANTCategory:Bourguignon nouns#VANTCategory:Bourguignon entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Bourguignon masculine nouns#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. wind

Etymology

From an obsolete past participle of vænne (“to accustom”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋanˀd̥]Category:Danish terms with IPA pronunciation#VANT

Adjective

vant (plural and definite singular attributive vante)Category:Danish lemmas#VANTCategory:Danish adjectives#VANTCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. usual, familiar

   Drengen føler sig tryg i vante omgivelser.

   The boy feels secure in a familiar environment.

   • 1873, Fr. Hammerich, De episk-kristelige Oldkvad hos de gotiske Folk, page 167:

     De vante steder til gudsdyrkelse kunde de lade dem beholde, de vante

     They could let them keep the usual places of worship, the usual ones

     Category:Danish terms with quotations#VANT

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   • 1839, Thomasine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Nye fortællinger af Forfatteren' til "En Hverdags-Historie" (ed. Johan Ludwig Heiberg), C.A. Reitzel, page 89

     I flere Dage blev han denne Beslutning tro, og den unge Pige, hvis Hjerte allerede hang ved denne sin første Kjærlighed, vandrede, forgjæves speidende, omkring de vante Steder, uden at ane den Kamp, som den utaknemmelige Elsker maatte stride med sit eget Hjerte.

     For several days, he stuck to this decision, and the young girl, whose heart already drooped at this its first love, wandered, looking in vain, around the usual places, not knowing the struggle which the ungrateful lover had to fight with his own heart.

     Category:Danish terms with quotations#VANT

   • 2015, Christine Merrill, Lady Folbrokes bedårende bedrag, Forlaget Harlequin AB, →ISBN:

     Jeg kan klare mig uden at vække opsigt i kortere tidsrum ad gangen på vante steder.

     I can make it without attracting attention for short time intervals at a time in usual places.

     Category:Danish terms with quotations#VANT

   • 2011, Kai Jørgensen, At Starte Som en Kat Må Give Mindst 9 Liv, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 184:

     Folk vil gerne bevæge sig væk fra de vante steder, hvis det, de skal se, lyder spændende nok.

     People are willing to move away from the usual places, if that which they are to see sounds exciting enough.

     Category:Danish terms with quotations#VANT

References

• “vant,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Haitian Creole terms derived from French#VAT ventre (“belly, stomach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vãt/Category:Haitian Creole terms with IPA pronunciation#VAT

• Audio:

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  Category:Haitian Creole terms with audio pronunciation#VAT

Noun

vantCategory:Haitian Creole lemmas#VATCategory:Haitian Creole nouns#VATCategory:Haitian Creole entries with incorrect language header#VATCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. (anatomyCategory:ht:Anatomy#VAT) belly, stomach

   Synonym: pans

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Mauritian Creole terms derived from French#VANT ventre.

Noun

vantCategory:Mauritian Creole lemmas#VANTCategory:Mauritian Creole nouns#VANTCategory:Mauritian Creole entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. belly, stomach

References

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN

Verb

vantCategory:Middle Dutch non-lemma forms#VANTCategory:Middle Dutch verb forms#VANTCategory:Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of vinden

Etymology 1

From the obsolete past participle of venne.

Etymology 2

References

• “vant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “vant_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Etymology 1

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

vant

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

From DutchCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Dutch#VANTCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Dutch#VANT want.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

References

• “vant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• vatn

Adjective

vantCategory:Old Norse non-lemma forms#VANTCategory:Old Norse adjective forms#VANTCategory:Old Norse entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of vanrCategory:Old Norse links with redundant alt parameters#VANT

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaŋt/Category:Piedmontese terms with IPA pronunciation#VANT

Noun

vant m (plural vant)Category:Piedmontese lemmas#VANTCategory:Piedmontese nouns#VANTCategory:Piedmontese entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Piedmontese masculine nouns#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. boast, brag

Etymology

From FrenchCategory:Seychellois Creole terms derived from French#VANT ventre.

Noun

vantCategory:Seychellois Creole lemmas#VANTCategory:Seychellois Creole nouns#VANTCategory:Seychellois Creole entries with incorrect language header#VANTCategory:Pages with entries#VANTCategory:Pages with 13 entries#VANT

1. belly, stomach

References

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN

Etymology 1

From DutchCategory:Swedish terms borrowed from Dutch#VANTCategory:Swedish terms derived from Dutch#VANT want (“rigging”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “vant”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• vant in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• vant in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)