| CARVIEW |
Select Language
HTTP/2 200
date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:03:37 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
content-security-policy-report-only: default-src 'self';img-src 'self' data: https://flickr.com https://*.flickr.com https://s.gravatar.com https://s.gravatar.com/avatar https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar https://i1.wp.com/cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://cdn.auth0.com/avatars https://g.stripe.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/ https://farm66.static.flickr.com https://www.google-analytics.com https://tpc.googlesyndication.com https://pbs.twimg.com https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.amazon-adsystem.com https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://*.3lift.com https://ams-pageview-public.s3.amazonaws.com https://www.google.com https://syndication.twitter.com https://image8.pubmatic.com https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net https://*.googleusercontent.com;base-uri 'self';font-src 'self' https: data:;frame-ancestors 'self';frame-src https://js.stripe.com https://platform.twitter.com/ https://syndication.twitter.com/ https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://www.google.com/ https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/;connect-src 'self' https: https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ppub_config https://bam.nr-data.net/events/1/cb925c8058;object-src none;script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' report-sample https://js.stripe.com/v3/ https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js https://code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.4.1.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validate.js/0.13.1/validate.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.3/underscore-min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/list.js/1.5.0/list.min.js https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js https://www.googletagmanager.com/ https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js https://js-agent.newrelic.com/nr-spa-1184.min.js https://fundingchoicesmessages.google.com https://bam.nr-data.net https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net https://www.googletagservices.com https://adservice.google.com https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tether/1.4.0/js/tether.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.12.9/umd/popper.min.js https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/clipboard@2.0.8/dist/clipboard.min.js https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/howler/2.1.1/howler.min.js https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/validator/10.9.0/validator.min.js https://*.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/ https://*.googlesyndication.com/ https://platform.twitter.com/js/ https://cdn.ampproject.org https://www.google-analytics.com https://adservice.google.be https://adservice.google.ca https://adservice.google.co.id https://adservice.google.co.mz https://adservice.google.co.th https://adservice.google.co.uk https://adservice.google.co.za https://adservice.google.com.au https://adservice.google.com.ec https://adservice.google.com.hk https://adservice.google.com.ng https://adservice.google.com.np https://adservice.google.com.ph https://adservice.google.com.sa https://adservice.google.de https://adservice.google.es https://adservice.google.fi https://adservice.google.fr https://adservice.google.ie https://adservice.google.it https://adservice.google.lk https://adservice.google.lt https://adservice.google.nl https://adservice.google.no https://adservice.google.rs https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net;script-src-attr none;style-src 'self' https: 'unsafe-inline' report-sample;report-uri https://5f9d927665d1a16209ba908c.endpoint.csper.io
x-dns-prefetch-control: off
expect-ct: max-age=0
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
strict-transport-security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains
x-download-options: noopen
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-permitted-cross-domain-policies: none
referrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin
x-xss-protection: 0
etag: W/"1e33f-8EPKtIKNQMoNjL+5u3Infm/mOyA"
set-cookie: cookienik=eyJjc3JmU2VjcmV0IjoiNUpCNEczZkJlSWpvVnNxZG1MWFRyNXRlIn0=; path=/; expires=Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:03:37 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
set-cookie: cookienik.sig=gUbkWc1eMgng4BfS6HPvF25il0w; path=/; expires=Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:03:37 GMT; domain=wordnik.com; secure; httponly
vary: Accept-Encoding
content-encoding: gzip
pant - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To breathe rapidly in short gasps, as after exertion.
- intransitive verb To beat loudly or heavily; throb or pulsate.
- intransitive verb To give off loud puffs, especially while moving.
- intransitive verb To long demonstratively; yearn.
- intransitive verb To utter hurriedly or breathlessly.
- noun A short labored breath; a gasp.
- noun A throb; a pulsation.
- noun A short loud puff, as of steam from an engine.
- noun Trousers.
- noun Underpants.
- idiom (with (one's) pants down) In an embarrassing position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quick, short effort of breathing; a gasp.
- noun A throb, as of the heart.
- noun A public fountain or well in a town or village.
- To breathe hard or quickly; gasp with open mouth and heaving breast, as after exertion; gasp with excited eagerness.
- To throb or heave with violence or rapidity, as the heart or the breast after exertion or emotion.
- To bulge alternately in and out, as the skin of iron ships when the plating is structurally very weak.
- To languish; pine.
- To long with breathless eagerness; desire greatly or with agitation: with for or after.
- Synonyms To puff, blow.
- To yearn, sigh, hunger, thirst.
- To breathe (out) in a labored manner; gasp (out) with a spasmodic effort.
- To long for; desire with eagerness and agitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A single leg of a pair of pants. See
pants . - transitive verb To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
- transitive verb rare To long for; to be eager after.
- noun A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
- noun A violent palpitation of the heart.
- intransitive verb To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- intransitive verb To long eagerly; to desire earnestly; -- often used with for or after.
- intransitive verb To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
- intransitive verb Poetic To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- adjective Of or pertaining to pants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a public
drinking fountain in Scotland and North-East England - noun A quick
breathing ; a catching of the breath; agasp . - noun obsolete A violent
palpitation of theheart . - verb intransitive To
breathe quickly or in alabored manner, as afterexertion or fromeagerness orexcitement ; torespire with heaving of thebreast ; togasp . - verb transitive To
long for (something); to beeager for (something). - verb intransitive To long
eagerly ; todesire earnestly . - verb intransitive Of the heart, to
beat withunnatural violence orrapidity ; topalpitate . - verb intransitive To
sigh ; toflutter ; tolanguish . - noun fashion A
pair ofpants (trousers or underpants). - noun used attributively as a modifier Of or relating to
pants .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
- noun (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
- verb utter while panting, as if out of breath
- verb breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- noun the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English panten, perhaps alteration of Old French pantaisier, from Vulgar Latin *pantasiāre, from Greek phantasioun, to form images, from phantasiā, appearance; see fantasy.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Short for pantaloon.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Unknown
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Possibly a shortening of Old French pantoisier ("to be breathless") (compare modern French panteler ("to gasp for breath")), probably from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasioō, "I am subject to hallucinations"), from φαντασία (phantasia, "appearance, image, fantasy").
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From pants
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pant.
Examples
-
The symbolism in the pant is actually pluses, positive signs, and I've been HIV positive for 10 years.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
-
The symbolism in the pant is actually pluses, positive signs, and I've been HIV positive for 10 years.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
-
The symbolism in the pant is actually pluses, positive signs, and I've been HIV positive for 10 years.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
-
But they were comfortable, kept me dry, had some good pockets, and having a zipper on a wading pant is very cool concept.
Gear Review: Cloudveil Wading Pants and 8x Felt-Free Wading Boots 2009
-
Tim likes Gretchen's big, vaguely Native American print but doesn't like the yoke she's slapped on the ass of her black satin pant (s).
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
-
Tim likes Gretchen's big, vaguely Native American print but doesn't like the yoke she's slapped on the ass of her black satin pant (s).
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
-
Tim likes Gretchen's big, vaguely Native American print but doesn't like the yoke she's slapped on the ass of her black satin pant (s).
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 10 Recap: The Fabric of Their Lives Una LaMarche 2010
-
Hillary ... don't forget your sizeable lead among fat-butted women in pant suits who mindlessly support you regardless of facts all the while turning a blind eye to the reality of 2008 ... it ain't you babe!!
Clinton says she expects lead in popular vote, primary delegates 2008
-
Obama just blew right past the fat lady in pant suits. thank you david
Exit Polls: Did the Edwards endorsement make a difference? 2008
-
The candidate, hand in pant pocket, stood on a staircase overlooking a sprawling living room, and spoke of the American dream that each successive generation might do a little better than the one before it.
Obama Campaign Reaps Gilded Haul - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
Related Words
synonyms (244)
Words with the same meaning
- Aqua-Lung
- ache for
- aim
- artificial respiration
- aspiration
- aspire
- asthmatic wheeze
- bake
- bark
- bawl
- be dying for
- be hurting for
- be in heat
- beat
- bellow
- blare
- blat
- blaze
- bloom
- blow
- blowy
- blubber
- boil
- boom
- bray
- break down
- breath
- breath of air
- breathe
- breathe hard
- breathe in
- breathe out
- breathing
- broil
- broken wind
- burn
- burn out
- buzz
- cackle
- chant
- chirp
- choke
- clamor for
- collapse
- combust
- coo
- cook
- cough
- covet
- crack up
- crave
- crow
- cry for
- desire
- drawl
- droop
- drop
- drum
- exclaim
- exhalation
- exhale
- exhaust
- expel
- expiration
- expire
- exsufflation
- faint
- fatigue
- fidget
- flag
- flame
- flame up
- flare
- flare up
- flicker
- flip out
- flush
- flute
- flutter
- freak out on
- fry
- gape for
- gasp
- get high on
- get tired
- give out
- glow
- go pitapat
- grow weary
- growl
- grunt
- gulp
- hack
- hanker after
- have the fidgets
- have the shakes
- heave
- hiccup
- hiss
- hone for
- hope for
- huff
- huff and puff
- hunger
- incandesce
- inhalation
- inhalator
- inhale
- inspiration
- inspire
- insufflation
- iron lung
- itch for
- jade
- jerk
- keen
- languish
- languish for
- lilt
- long
- long for
- lust for
- mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- mumble
- murmur
- mutter
- oxygen mask
- oxygen tent
- palpitate
- pant after
- pant for
- parch
- peter out
- pine
- pine for
- pipe
- play out
- poop out
- pound
- puff
- puff and blow
- pulsate
- pulse
- quake
- quaver
- quiver
- radiate heat
- respiration
- respire
- roar
- roast
- rumble
- run down
- run out
- scald
- scorch
- scream
- screech
- scuba
- seethe
- shake
- shimmer with heat
- shiver
- shriek
- sibilate
- sigh
- sigh for
- simmer
- sing
- sink
- smolder
- smother
- snap
- snarl
- sneeze
- sniff
- sniffle
- snore
- snoring
- snort
- snuff
- snuffle
- sob
- spark
- spoil for
- squall
- squawk
- squeal
- squirm
- steam
- sternutation
- stertor
- stew
- stifle
- succumb
- suffocate
- suspiration
- sweat
- swell
- swell with emotion
- swelter
- thirst
- thirst for
- thrill
- thrill to
- throb
- thunder
- tick
- ticktock
- tingle
- tingle with excitement
- tire
- toast
- toss
- toss and turn
- tremble
- trumpet
- tumble
- turn on to
- twang
- twist and turn
- twitch
- wail
- want
- warble
- weary
- weary for
- wheeze
- whine
- whisper
- wiggle
- wilt
- wind
- wish
- wish for
- wriggle
- writhe
- yap
- yawp
- yearn for
- yell
- yelp
- yen for
ellenw commented on the word pant
Listed under "words I hate" as the singular of "pants," not as what dogs do.
May 26, 2007
frindley commented on the word pant
Oh, I agree! I loathe the use of this word to indicate a single pair of pants. I see it in fashion journalism and retail: jacket $200, blouse $100, pant $150. But don't we all put our "pants" on in the morning, not our "pant"? (Pace dress and skirt wearers.)
April 16, 2008
reesetee commented on the word pant
I couldn't agree more. I say if you're selling a pant for $150, the pair should cost $300.
And that's too much for pants anyway. ;-)
April 16, 2008
gangerh commented on the word pant
Pant $150 bogof!
April 16, 2008
Kristianto2010 commented on the word pant
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
December 14, 2010