Mote

Quick meaning: Mote is a noun meaning (literary or puristic, otherwise archaic) A small particle; a speck.

Meaning

(literary or puristic, otherwise archaic) A small particle; a speck.

More Meanings

1. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
2. (archaic) May or might.
3. (obsolete) Must.
4. (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
5. (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
6. (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
7. (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.

Example Sentences

a wardmote in the city of London

What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?

‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.

he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.

Word Forms

• motes

Synonyms for mote

Depending on context, synonyms include modicum, speck, particle, atom.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include atom, speck, particle, bathwater, chaff, husk.

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