Dependant is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEPENDANT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who depends on another for support, also DEPENDENT
• Alt. of Dependancy
• a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
ADJECTIVE:
• contingent on or determined by
• requiring someone or something for financial or other support
• unable to do without
• (of a clause, phrase, or word) subordinate to another clause, phrase, or word
• contingent on something else
• addicted to a drug
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• hanging down
• same as dependent

Words related to DEPENDANT

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Words that contain DEPENDANT

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How to use DEPENDANT in a sentence

• He had not seen his dependant long before her beauty, situation, and his passions decided him to effect her ruin.
• No person dwelt on his land who was not a direct dependant, or hireling, and all that the earth yielded he could call his own.
• He then saw himself a helpless orphan, the inferior of all with whom he came in contact, and a dependant upon the charity of others for his support.
• True, it exists everywhere, but I regard it less potent in the country, where a farmer can live less dependant on his oppressors.
• She had one daughter, who was an invalid many years, and dependant upon the care of the feeble mother.
• Again I entered the chamber where a father lay, upon whom a numerous family were dependant.
• The Davidsons hired a chair, and got that deaf and obstinate dependant of theirs, Widgery, to attend to it.
• The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself, very little consults his own tranquillity.
• She who had been a dependant upon others all her life was to know the security and liberty that must needs go along with wealth.
• After being so long used to rely on his toil, it is a sore cross to a dependant woman to be thrown suddenly and altogether on herself for support.
• Adam Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, was a dependant of the Mortimers, who took his surname from one of their Herefordshire manors.
• A refusal on his part to become security for his dependant or client is held to justify the latter in renouncing his civil dependence and choosing another patron.
• For Massachusetts, the prime mover in this enterprise, is the last State in the Union to mean a final separation, as being of all the most dependant on the others.
• A Judiciary, dependant on the will of the King, had proved itself the most oppressive of all tools in the hands of that magistrate.
• This was accepted to avert any uncertainty in the issue dependant upon doubtful points of law, and to avoid exhausting the property by litigation.
• He has become an official part of a great edifice which supports the faith of multitudes of simple and dependant believers.
• On Wednesday the 2d of January 1493, the admiral went on shore to take leave of Guacanagari, and dined with him and his dependant caciques.
• On either side can be seen giant stalactites dependant from the roof, looking like mighty columns to support the dome.
• If it were possible I would do this directly, but the fashion of the times has made me a dependant and home aid would scarcely be extended to me in this.
• The dependant, whom it had been thought judicious to snub, was now the equal of those who had so prudently dealt with her according to their lights.
• She lived in fear of Sir Jeoffry, and in fear of the servants, who knew full well that she was an humble dependant, and treated her as one.

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