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tæt

Pronunciation: /tɛt/

“tæt” is a Danish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. close (with a little or no distance)
  2. dense, tight, thick, heavy (with a high density)
  3. watertight, waterproof, air-tight (impenetrable by water or air)

adverb

  1. closely (with little or no distance)
  2. densely, thickly, tight, tightly, heavily (with a high density)

Etymology

From Old Danish thæt, from Old Norse þéttr (“tight, watertight”), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz. Cognate with Swedish tät, English tight, Dutch, German dicht. Doublet of tight.

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