Pant

Pronunciation

• enPR: pănt, IPA: /pænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Possibly a shortening of Old French pantoisier ("to be breathless") (compare modern French panteler ("to gasp for breath")), probably from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō ("struggling for breath when having a nightmare"), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasioō, "I am subject to hallucinations"), from φαντασία (phantasia, "appearance, image, fantasy").

Full definition of pant

Noun

1. A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
2. (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
• DrydenPluto plants for breath from out his cell.
• ShelleyThere is a cavern where my spirit
  Was panted forth in anguish.
2. (transitive) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
• HerbertThen shall our hearts pant thee.
3. (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
• Bible, Psalms xlii. 1As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
• Alexander PopeWho pants for glory finds but short repose.
4. (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
5. (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
• Alexander PopeThe whispering breeze
  Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.

Synonyms

• (breathe quickly or in a labored manner) gasp
• (long for) crave, desire, long for, pine for
• (long eagerly) crave, desire, long, pine
• (of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence) palpitate, pound, throb

From pants

Noun

1. (fashion) A pair of pants trousers or underpants.
2. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to pants.Pant leg

Derived terms

• pant cuff
• pant leg
• pantsuit, pant suit
• panty, panties

Unknown

Noun

1. a public drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England

Anagrams

• APTN
• NPTA