Usually means: Breathing heavily, usually after exertion.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pant, pant-: Merriam-Webster
  3. pant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pant, pant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pant, pant-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pant, pant: Wordnik
  8. pant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pant, pant, pant-: Wiktionary
  10. pant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pant, pant-: Dictionary.com
  14. pant (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pant: Rhymezone
  20. pant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pant: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pant, pant-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pant-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pant, pant(o)-, pant-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PANT: Acronym Finder
  3. pant: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
noun:  (figurative) Eager longing.
noun:  (obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
verb:  (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
verb:  (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
verb:  (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
verb:  (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
noun:  (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
noun:  (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
noun:  (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A river in Essex, England, which forms the upper part of the Blackwater.
noun:  A locality in Austwick parish, North Yorkshire, England
noun:  A village in Llanymynech and Pant parish, Shropshire, England, on the border with Wales (OS grid ref SJ2722).
noun:  A locality in Ayrshire, Scotland
noun:  A village and community in Merthyr Tydfil county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0609).

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