Associations to the word «Emmet»

Wiktionary

EMMET, noun. (archaic) An ant.
EMMET, noun. (Cornish dialect) (pejorative) A tourist.
EMMET, proper noun. A surname​.
EMMET, proper noun. A city in Arkansas
EMMET, proper noun. A village in Nebraska
EMMET, proper noun. One of two towns in Wisconsin

Dictionary definition

EMMET, noun. Social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats