Definitions for dependants

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dependants de·pend·ant

Spelling: [dih-pen-duh nt]

IPA: /dɪˈpɛn dənt/

Dependants is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 407 anagrams from letters in dependants (addeennpst).

Definitions for dependants

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.
4. a person who depends on or needs someone or something for aid, support, favor, etc.
5. a child, spouse, parent, or certain other relative to whom one contributes all or a major amount of necessary financial support:
6. 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.
8. relying on someone or something else for aid, support, etc.
9. conditioned or determined by something else; contingent:
10. subordinate; subject:
11. 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).
12. hanging down; pendent.
13. 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.
14. Statistics. (of an event or a value) not statistically independent.

adjective, noun

1. dependent.
2. dependent.

Origin of dependants

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

Examples for dependants

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.

Other successful courtiers had, like him, their trains of dependants.

Some patronage—be it so—for my own dependants and followers, no doubt!

If they do abandon their land, they may take away with them only three of their dependants.

Common enough it was for those in power to treat their dependants with cruelty.

So she had won respect and a good name among her dependants, but not love.

For there are the dependants and friends of the king and of the nobles.

“Scots better people than to be dependants of London,” he wrote last week.

dependants, to respect us, must be—ha—kept at a distance and—hum—kept down.

A large following of dependants and servants had arrived with him.

This has been the custom of tyrants, and their dependants in all ages.