Meaning
A very small insect that lives in big groups and can carry things much heavier than itself.
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Word origin
From Old English aemette, a word that slowly shortened into ant.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- aemette
Grammar
Examples
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Ants move together in long lines.
weighs .
Ant starts with a vowel sound, so we say an ant.
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Ants live together in a nest with thousands of others.
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