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Meaning of ait | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
eɪt

Definitions

  1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
  2. An oat.
  3. Initialism of alloimmune thrombocytopenia: a too-low number of platelets in the blood, especially of a newborn or fetus, due to alloimmunity.
  4. Initialism of Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria's largest Research and Technology Organization (RTO)).
  5. Initialism of allergen immunotherapy.
  6. Initialism of auditory integration training.
  7. Initialism of autoignition temperature.

Equivalents

Čeština výspa
Français ait AIT
Polski żuława
Tiếng Việt cù lao

Examples

“The ait where the osiers grew.”
“‘[H]e the said seigneur, in quality of Lord Paramount, is to all intents and purposes invested with the sole right and property of the river running through his fief, together with […] all the islands and aits within it.’”
“1833, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9, Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits.”
“Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.”
“Let husky wheat the haughs adorn, An' aits set up their awnie horn,”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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