Transcription
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kant]
- /kænt/
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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
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- [kant]
- /kænt/
Definitions of cants word
- noun cants a salient angle. 1
- noun cants a sudden movement that tilts or overturns a thing. 1
- noun cants a slanting or tilted position. 1
- noun cants an oblique line or surface, as one formed by cutting off the corner of a square of cube. 1
- noun cants an oblique or slanting face of anything. 1
- noun cants Civil Engineering. bank1 (def 6). 1
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Origin of cants
First appearance:
before 1495 One of the 26% oldest English words
1495-1505; < Latin base cant- in cantus song, canticus singsong, etc., whence Old English cantere singer, cantic song; see chant
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Parts of speech for Cants
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
cants popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data about 69% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
cants usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for cants
noun cants
- hypocrisies — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- jargons — a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
- argots — Plural form of argot.
- patois — a regional form of a language, especially of French, differing from the standard, literary form of the language.
- idioms — an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.