adit
Meaning of adit
noun
a horizontal passage leading into a mine for the purposes of access or drainage.
early 17th century: from Latin aditus ‘approach, entrance’, from adit- ‘approached’, from the verb adire, from ad- ‘towards’ + ire ‘go’.
Information about adit
- It is a name.
- The plural form of adit is: adits.
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Hyphenation of adit
adit
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- adit is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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