From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishantant /ænt/ ●●○ noun [countable] 1 HBIa small insect that lives in large groups2 → have ants in your pants
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ant• How damaging are ants to plants?• You can see families on outings alongside the drive below you, looking like ants at their own picnic.• A million red ants crawling inside a silk sheet, that was what I should have seen.• In spite of all we could do, several snakes died as a result of the ant bites.-ant-ant /ənt/, -ent suffix [in nouns and adjectives] XXsomeone or something that does something a servant (=someone who serves others) disinfectant (=substance for killing germs) expectant (=expecting) pleasant (=pleasing)Examples from the Corpus
-ant• a disinfectant• an assistantOrigin ant Old English æmette -ant Old French Latin, a present participle ending 