dependant

Meaning of dependant

noun
  1. a person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.
    a single man with no dependants

late Middle English (denoting a dependency): from Old French, literally ‘hanging down from’, present participle of dependre (see depend).

Information about dependant

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of dependant is: dependants.
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Hyphenation of dependant

de-pen-dant

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • dependant is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

dependant synonyms

Meaning dependent:

dependent, qualified, hooked

Meaning a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority:

child

Meaning a person under the age of full legal responsibility:

minor

Meaning a child or young person under the care and control of a guardian appointed by their parents or a court:

ward

Meaning a person or thing entrusted to the care of someone:

charge

Meaning a person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person:

protégé

Meaning a person connected by blood or marriage:

relative

Meaning an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense:

parasite

Meaning a person's child or children:

offspring

Meaning a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring:

progeny

Meaning a child who is fostered or adopted:

fosterling

Anagrams of dependant

pendanted

Words that rhyme with dependant

Dant, dant, abradant, pedant, quadrupedant, Aidant, aidant, antioxidant, avoidant, confidant, consolidant, deoxidant, dividant, idant, oxidant, trepidant, geldant, Ascendant, Descendant, abundant, appendant, ascendant, attendant, codefendant, codescendant, commandant, defendant, demandant, descendant, disappendant, extendant, fondant, intendant, inundant, mandant, nonappendant, nonascendant, nonattendant, nondefendant, nonpendant, nonredundant, offendant, overabundant, pendant, preabundant, pretendant, reascendant, reboundant, redundant, superabundant

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