Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. At a slant; obliquely.
- prep. Obliquely over or across: lay the paddle aslant the gunwales.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a slanting or sloping direction; oblique; obliquely; not perpendicularly or at right angles.
- Slantingly across; athwart.
Wiktionary
- adj. slanting
- adv. at a slant
- prep. archaic diagonally over or across
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.
- prep. In a slanting direction over; athwart.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. at an oblique angle
- adv. over or across in a slanting direction
- adj. having an oblique or slanted direction
Examples
“In Behind the Scenes at the Museum, a young girl happily cavorts in front of the TV screen broadcasting Elizabeth II's coronation; the moment simultaneously registers a shift in how the English experience their own history and a comical awareness of how "aslant" these experiences might prove to be.”
“For years, people would look aslant at me, when I would make that statement.”
“Pingback by Tailfeather » Blog Archive » Olive Kitteridge and looking at someone aslant — September 9, 2009 @ 3: 40 pm”
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“I thought that if Henry remembered the fairy tales from his childhood, he would begin that reentering process, and it seemed to make sense that he would remember it aslant that he would remember the fairy tales in the original German.”
“And in early America, African slaves invented a form of marriage, "besom wedding" or jumping the broom, in which a couple jumped over a broomstick stuck aslant in a doorway and declared themselves married.”
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“ Dropping the paper on the lawn, he turned to watch as Annette rose from the passenger door, her mouth open, jaw aslant.”
“The snake's brow is draped aslant in the tree's glossy leaves, suggesting a comic green beret.”
“This is a subject I have spoken to before, but now and then, I get a notion that is either new to me, or comes at the subject slightly aslant of where I was before, so ...”
“The tower had a flat roof below the dome with thick and jutting chajjas, eaves that rinsed rainwater away from the building and provided an impenetrable shade even when the sun was aslant.”
“Miss Maszkeradi had sought precisely such a gruff, ancient tree-like male all her life, to whom she could have been as faithful as to this rooted, bark-bound, impassive trunk that had a face, as in fabled forests of old, hands in pockets, and a waist aslant, in a bored pose.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aslant’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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judith's word inbox
collocated, carnaval, articulate, reticulated, cilia, sardonic, aesthetics, tenacity, tensile, jubilant, ebullient, ethereal and 206 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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the blood jet is poetry
A selection of frequent or favourite words from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, as part of my bid to read them all. Quotes can be found on each citation page.
whiteness, zen, dryad, rook, tulip, kindness, troublous, portico, prospect, blight, havoc, millrace and 62 more...
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Skot's Words
huggermugger, dremel, derogate, snood, barony, filch, salacious, verdant, dongle, vertiginous, slender, axiom and 30 more...
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Poetrie: Because You Asked about the ...
by Howard Nemerov
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned to pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to rando...fell, flew, moment, slow, random, aslant, invisible, gradient, snow, pieces, drizzle, freezing and 2 more...
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words that are mine
words i own in some way, that make me feel special when i hear them, that trigger memory, that form me.
glimmer, niente, aslant, oneironaut, amnesiac, nepenthe, eight, trimalleolar, liebling, abecedary
Tweets
Looking for tweets for aslant.
bilby
"QUEEN GERTRUDE: There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
There with fantastic garlands did she come
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,..."
- Shakespeare, 'Hamlet'. Oct 6, 2008
ofravens Below: a fen where water stood;
Aslant: their hill of stinging nettle
from 'Bucolics,' by Sylvia Plath Apr 9, 2008