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English
Etymology
From French dépendant.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dependant (comparative more dependant, superlative most dependant)
- Obsolete spelling of dependent
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Sense and Sensibility , volume I, London: C Roworth, , and published by T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 177:Mrs. Smith has this morning exercised the privilege of riches upon a poor dependant cousin, by sending me on business to London.
- Misspelling of dependent.
2006 April 27, Sylvia Moosmüller, Theodor Granser, “The spread of Standard Albanian: An illustration based on an analysis of vowels”, in Language Variation and Change, volume 18, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI:However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style […]
Noun
dependant (plural dependants)
- UK and Commonwealth standard spelling of dependent.
Translations
one who relies on another for support
— see dependentReferences
- Merriam-Webster Indicating only US spelling is "dependent" (redirects, lists British spelling as a "variant".)
- Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, pp. 148-149.
- Encarta Always a misspelling in US English, adjective and noun are differentiated in British English by spelling.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
dēpendant
- third-person plural present active subjunctive of dēpendō