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mote

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/moʊt/
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/moʊt/ · /məʊt/

Definition of mote

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small particle; a speck.
    “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
    “What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?”
    “I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.”
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noun

  1. A small particle; a speck.
    “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
    “What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?”
    “I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.”
  2. (obsolete)A meeting for discussion.
    “a wardmote in the city of London”
  3. (obsolete)A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
    “a folk mote”
  4. (obsolete)A place of meeting for discussion.
  5. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.

verb

  1. (archaic, no-present-participle)May or might.
    “he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.”
  2. (no-present-participle, obsolete)Must.
  3. (archaic, no-present-participle)Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
    “‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), from Proto-West Germanic *mot (“grain of dirt or sand, speck”). Perhaps linked to English mud. Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Low German mut (“peat dust, grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”), Italian mota (“mud”), Spanish mota (“speck”).

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