Pant meaning
An example of a pant is what a person is doing after running on a treadmill for an hour.
An example of a pant is the heavy beat of the heart.
An example of a pant is the steam released from a steam engine train.
An example of pant is what a person does after sprinting a distance.
An example of pant is what a person's heart does after running fast.
An example of pant is a child desperately wanting an ice cream cone.
Was panting for a chance to play.
I panted my congratulations to the winner of the race.
Pant leg.
- In an embarrassing position.
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of pant
- Middle English panten perhaps alteration of Old French pantaisier from Vulgar Latin pantasiāre from Greek phantasioun to form images from phantasiā appearance fantasy
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Short for pantaloon
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Possibly a shortening of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless") (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath")), probably from Vulgar Latin *pantasiÅ (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare"), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasioÅ, “I am subject to hallucinations"), from φαντασία (phantasia, “appearance, image, fantasy").
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- From pants
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