Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A form of mate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun South Africa, slang mate; buddy

Etymologies

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From Afrikaans maat ("mate, buddy").

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Examples

  • In the texts that accompany these scenes the ears of wheat are said to be the "members of Osiris," and the wheat plant is called the maat plant.

    The Book of the Dead 1895

  • Vol met bier, gaan slaap nou, tot siens ou maat on January 23, 2009 at 2: 11 am | Reply TheBinarySurfer

    Two Million Visits To Police Inspector Blog « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • I don't want to see made-up words like maat anymore (written vowellessly as [mȝˁt] in Egyptian), but rather *maʔūʕat (as reconstructed by John Callender) and also seen in the Amarna rendering of [nb-mȝˁt-riˁ] as Nimmuria (for *Nib-*Maʔūʕat-Rīʕa) during the Middle Kingdom.

    Coptic online 2007

  • I don't want to see made-up words like maat anymore (written vowellessly as [mȝˁt] in Egyptian), but rather *maʔūʕat (as reconstructed by John Callender) and also seen in the Amarna rendering of [nb-mȝˁt-riˁ] as Nimmuria (for *Nib-*Maʔūʕat-Rīʕa) during the Middle Kingdom.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • This time he was interrupted, though most respectfully, by Kene-maat, who, when the former priestesses were all responding as a group, tended to be their spokesperson.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • Of all of them, bold Kene-maat had the loosest tongue.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • "Indeed you should, Kene-maat," she replied evenly.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • He sustained the order (maat) of the cosmos, and Maat, the personification of truth, justice, and order was regarded as both his daughter and his food.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

  • The idea of maat was basically that of cosmic order as opposed to chaos.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

  • Consequently, anyone whose conduct was not in accord with the accepted mores abused maat, the good order of things, of which Rē was the upholder, and so incurred his vengeance in this world or the next.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDO 1968

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