riant

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English

Etymology

From French riant.

Adjective

riant (comparative more riant, superlative most riant)

  1. Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
  2. Of a place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French riant, from Middle French riant, from Old French riant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /riˈɑnt/
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  • Hyphenation: ri‧ant
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Adjective

riant (comparative rianter, superlative riantst)

  1. (chiefly of buildings, valuable possessions and money) lavish, splendid, spacious, luxurious
  2. (sports) decisive, overwhelming, convincing
  3. (archaic) cheerful, riant

Declension

Declension of riant
uninflected riant
inflected riante
comparative rianter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial riant rianter het riantst
het riantste
indefinite m./f. sing. riante riantere riantste
n. sing. riant rianter riantste
plural riante riantere riantste
definite riante riantere riantste
partitive riants rianters —

French

Pronunciation

Participle

riant

  1. present participle of rire
  2. (preceded by en) gerund of rire

Adjective

riant (feminine riante, masculine plural riants, feminine plural riantes)

  1. laughing (in the process of laughing)

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Old French

Pronunciation

Verb

riant

  1. present participle of rire

Adjective

riant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular riant)

  1. laughing
  2. (by extension) joyous; happy

Declension

Case masculine feminine neuter
singular subject riants riant riant
oblique riant riant riant
plural subject riant rianzs riant
oblique riants rianzs riant

Welsh

Noun

riant

  1. Soft mutation of rhiant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of rhiant
radical soft nasal aspirate
rhiant riant unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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