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lant

/lænt/noun

lant is a noun meaning “Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-N-T and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting LANT, the name). The plural of lant is lants.

What does lant mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Aged urine, historically used by the Anglo-Saxons and others as fertilizer for high nitrogen content.

  2. 2

    Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes, including the common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus).

  3. 3

    UKobsoleteObsolete form of lanterloo (the card game).

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce lant?

  • /lænt/
  • /lɑːnt/

Lant has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of lant

  • lants present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • lanting participle, present
  • lanted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is lant?

Lant appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes LANT, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does lant come from?

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English *land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).