emmet

1. 1.

   social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

   Synonymsantpismire

   Broaderhymenopterous insect

   Narrowerpharaoh antlittle black antarmy antcarpenter antfire antwood antslave antslave-making antbulldog ant

   Part ofFormicidae

Other forms of emmet

plural

emmets·

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 emmet

What does emmet mean?

emmet means "social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers".

How many syllables are in emmet?

emmet has 2 syllables: em-met. The stress falls on "em". In IPA it is /ˈɛmɪt/.

What is another word for emmet?

Close synonyms include ant, pismire. 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 emmet a common word?

emmet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.