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Definition of 'emmet'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(archaic) An ant.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:
- He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […].
* 1789 , William Blake, Songs of Innocence , :
- Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.
* 1814 , William Wordsworth, The Excursion , IV.430:
- [A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
* 1993 , Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford :
- We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.
(Cornish dialect|pejorative) A tourist.
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