dependant

1. 1.

   a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)

   Synonymsdependent

   Broaderrecipient

   Narrowerchargeminion

Other forms of dependant

plural

dependants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dependant

What does dependant mean?

dependant means "contingent on something else". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dependant?

dependant has 3 syllables: de-pen-dant. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for dependant?

Close synonyms include dependent, qualified, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dependant a common word?

dependant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.