Usually means: Small, social insect, forms colonies.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word ant:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ant, -ant, ant, ant-: Merriam-Webster
  2. -ant, ant, ant-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Ant, ant, ant, ant-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -ant, an't, ant, ant-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ant: Vocabulary.com
  6. A'n't, An't, Ant, -ant, a'n't, a'nt, an't, ant, ant, ant, ant-: Wordnik
  7. -ant, ant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ant: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Ant, -ant, a'n't, an't, ant, ant-: Wiktionary
  10. -ant, an't, ant, ant-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. -ant, ant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. ANT, An't, Ant-, -ant, an't, ant, ant-: Dictionary.com
  14. ant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. ANT (comedian), ANT (network), ANT, Ant (chair), Ant (comedian), Ant (comics), Ant (disambiguation), Ant (producer), Ant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. An't, Ant-, Ant, -ant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. an't, ant, ant-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ant: Rhymezone
  20. An't, Ant-, ant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Ant: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. ANT, Ant: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. ant, ant-: FreeDictionary.org
  25. ant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Ant, an't, ant, ant-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. ant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. ant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  29. ant: Merriam-Webster

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. -ant, ant-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Ant: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ant, ant-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ant, ant, ant: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. ANT: Acronym Finder
  4. ANT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. ant: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ant: Easton Bible
  2. Ant: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ant: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Ant: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. ANT: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ant (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. an't, ant: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Any of various insects in the family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera, typically living in large colonies composed almost entirely of flightless females.
▸ noun:  (Internet) A Web spider.
▸ verb:  (ornithology) To rub insects, especially ants, on one's body, perhaps to control parasites or clean feathers.
▸ noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Anthony, from Latin.
▸ noun:  A river in Norfolk, England, tributary to the Bure.
▸ noun:  The 27th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
▸ noun:  Initialism of Afghanistan National Television.
▸ noun:  (US) Initialism of Aids to Navigation Team, as used in the United States Coast Guard.
▸ noun:  (anthropology, semiotics) Abbreviation of actor–network theory.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) Acronym of ambiguous nuclear transient.

Similar:
emmet, pismire, anti, counteractive, formicoid, formicine, hymenopteron, hymenopteran, wasp, formicariid, more...

Opposite:
anteater

Types:
carpenter, fire, harvester, leafcutter, bullet, army, sugar, acrobat, citronella, more...

Phrases:
fire ant, Ant colony, ant hill, red ant, ant farm, more...

Adjectives:
red, white, black, little, small, large, argentine, single, common, tiny, big

Colors:
    black,     brown,     red,     orange,     yellow, more...


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Similar:
emmet, pismire, anti, counteractive, formicoid, formicine, hymenopteron, hymenopteran, wasp, formicariid, more...

Opposite:
anteater

Types:
carpenter, fire, harvester, leafcutter, bullet, army, sugar, acrobat, citronella, more...

Phrases:
fire ant, Ant colony, ant hill, red ant, ant farm, white ant, black ant, ant hills, Argentine ant, army ant, ant heap, ant lion, harvester ant, carpenter ant, ant lions, wood ant, worker ant, Ant eggs, Adam Ant, more...

Adjectives:
red, white, black, little, small, large, argentine, single, common, tiny, big

Colors:
    black,     brown,     red,     orange,     yellow, more...



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