suantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsjuː.ənt/

語源

From 中期英語 suant (“following”), from Anglo-Norman suant, from Old French suiant, sivant, present participle of sivre (“to follow”), from Latin sequor.

形容詞

suant (comparative more suant, superlative most suant)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, rare) Smooth, or proceeding smoothly.

派生語

• suantly

副詞

suant (comparative more suant, superlative most suant)

1. (obsolete or dialectal, rare) Smoothly; without difficulty.
   • 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, page 11:

     When all sems gwayin' suant, Jist when 'e sem 'e've schuled ther hart,  […]

   • 1899, Sabine Baring-Gould, Book of the West‎, page 252:

     Peter and his wife did not get on very "suant" together.

同意語

• smoothly, well, suantly

関連する語

参考

• pursuant

参照

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Suant”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• aunts, Nsuta, tsuna, tuans, astun, Antus, tunas, Satun, tansu