Weet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /wiːt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Weet is a verb meaning (intransitive, archaic) To know.
Meaning
(intransitive, archaic) To know.
More Meanings
- (Scotland, Northern England) Alternative form of wet, especially in the sense "rainy weather".
Example Sentences
... binds with wind and weet / The vestment round his thews.
I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man.
When dingy packs on Criffel lower, Then hoose yer kye an' stuik yer duir, But if Criffel be fair an' clear, For win' or weet ye needn't fear (Cum.).
The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.
Word Forms
- weets
- weeting
- weeted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dewy, bix, know, witter, inform, beknow.
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