Definitions for dependant

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dependant de·pend·ant

Spelling: [dih-pen-duh nt]

IPA: /dɪˈpɛn dənt/

Dependant is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in dependant (addeennpt).

Definitions for dependant

noun

1. a person who depends on or needs someone or something for aid, support, favor, etc.
2. a child, spouse, parent, or certain other relative to whom one contributes all or a major amount of necessary financial support:
3. Archaic. a subordinate part.

adjective

1. relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
2. conditioned or determined by something else; contingent:
3. subordinate; subject:
4. Grammar. not used in isolation; used only in connection with other forms. In I walked out when the bell rang, when the bell rang is a dependent clause. Compare independent (def 14), main1 (def 4).
5. hanging down; pendent.
6. Mathematics. (of a variable) having values determined by one or more independent variables. (of an equation) having solutions that are identical to those of another equation or to those of a set of equations.
7. Statistics. (of an event or a value) not statistically independent.

adjective, noun

1. dependent.

Origin of dependant

First recorded in 1375-1425, dependent is from the late Middle English word dependaunt. See depend, -ent

Examples for dependant

The position was that of a dependant; and how would Tony figure in such a post?

At any rate he was not Lady Lufton's servant, nor even her dependant.

I can feel for a dependant now, and set some value on his attachment.'

The more idle and dependant on others, the greater the renown.

You can't wound me, either, by retaliating, and calling me a dependant.

She was a dependant, a servant: how could she expect such attentions?

Does not this prove that it is contagious, and not dependant on the atmosphere?

Yes, I wish you to go into the world, not as a dependant, but as an equal to the world's favourites.

A dependant was praising his patron for many virtues which he did not possess.

You cannot deny, rash and foolish boy, that you are in a dependant state.