About The Word Mote
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Mote
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What's The Definition Of Mote?
[n] (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
Synonyms | Synonyms for Mote: atom | molecule | particle | speck Related Terms | Find terms related to Mote: ace | acropolis | air | atom | bastion | beachhead | bit | black sheep | blemish | blockhouse | bridgehead | bubble | bunker | castle | chaff | chip | citadel | cobweb | cork | crumb | dab | dole | donjon | dot | down | dram | dribble | driblet | drop | droplet | dust | dwarf | ether | fairy | farthing | fasthold | fastness | feather | fleck | flue | fluff | flyspeck | foam | foreign body | foreign intruder | fort | fortress | fragment | froth | fuzz | garrison | garrison house | gnat | gobbet | gossamer | grain | granule | groat | hair | handful | hold | impurity | intruder | iota | jot | keep | little | little bit | martello | martello tower | microbe | microorganism | midge | minim | minimum | minutia | minutiae | misfit | mite | modicum | molecule | monkey wrench | motte | nutshell | oddball | ounce | particle | pebble | peel | peel tower | pillbox | pinch | pinhead | pinpoint | pittance | point | post | rath | safehold | scrap | scruple | sliver | smidgen | smitch | snip | snippet | speck | splinter | sponge | spoonful | spot | spume | stone | straw | strong point | stronghold | thimbleful | thistledown | tiny bit | tittle | tower | tower of strength | trifling amount | trivia | vanishing point | ward | weed | whit See Also | chylomicron | grain | material | stuff Mote In Webster's Dictionary \Mote\, v.
See 1st {Mot}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Mote\, n. [See {Moot}, a meeting.] [Obs., except in a few combinations or phrases.] 1. A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London. 2. A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote. 3. A place of meeting for discussion. {Mote bell}, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [Obs.] \Mote\, n. The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See {Mot}, n., 3, and {Mort}. --Chaucer. \Mote\, n. [OE. mot, AS. mot.] A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck. The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind. --Bacon. We are motes in the midst of generations. --Landor. |
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