dependents
Meaning of dependents
- a person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.
a single man with no dependants
late Middle English (denoting a dependency): from Old French, literally ‘hanging down from’, present participle of dependre (see depend).
plural noun
variant spelling of dependant.
late Middle English dependant ‘hanging down’, from Old French, present participle of dependre (see depend). The spelling change in the 16th century was due to association with the Latin participial stem dependent- .
Information about dependents
- It is a name.
- The singular form of dependents is: dependent.
- Languages in which dependents is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of dependents
de-pen-dents
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- dependents is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
dependents synonyms
Meaning a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority:
Meaning a person under the age of full legal responsibility:
Meaning a child or young person under the care and control of a guardian appointed by their parents or a court:
Meaning a person or thing entrusted to the care of someone:
Meaning a person who is guided and supported by an older and more experienced or influential person:
Meaning a person connected by blood or marriage:
Meaning an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense:
Meaning a person's child or children:
Meaning a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring:
Meaning a child who is fostered or adopted:
Words that rhyme with dependents
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