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Emmet

//ˈɛmɪt// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. 3
    A ghost town in Queensland, Australia.
  4. 4
    A city in Nevada and Hempstead, Arkansas.
  5. 5
    A village in Holt County, Nebraska.
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  1. 6
    An unincorporated community in McLean County, North Dakota.
  2. 7
    A ghost town in Union County, South Dakota.
  3. 8
    A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
  4. 9
    A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Noun
  1. 1
    An ant. archaic, dialectal

    "He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]"

  2. 2
    social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers wordnet
  3. 3
    A tourist. Cornwall, derogatory

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English emete, from Old English ǣmete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.

Etymology 2

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.

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