Meaning of emmet | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

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

“1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c”

“What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?”

“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.”

“[A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.”

“We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies.”

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