Aslant
//əˈslænt// adj, adv, prep
adj, adv, prep ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Slanting. archaic, literary
"Near-synonym: askance"
Adjective
- 1 having an oblique or slanted direction wordnet
Adverb
- 1 At a slant. archaic, literary
"The Shaft that slightly was impress’d, Now from his heavy Fall with weight increas’d, Drove through his Neck, aslant,"
Adverb
- 1 at an oblique angle wordnet
- 2 over or across in a slanting direction wordnet
Preposition
- 1 Diagonally over or across. archaic, literary
"There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream."
Example
More examples"Only some stray goats from the village browse the scanty grass all day, and the solitary water-hawk watches from an uprooted peepal aslant over the mud."
Etymology
From Middle English aslant (“at an angle, in a curve; from the side, deviously”), from on slante; equivalent to a- + slant.
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