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" My father was an ardent socialist for many years."
Leon Askin

Meaning of "ardent" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ARDENT

From Latin ārdēre to burn.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ARDENT

ˈɑːdənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ARDENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ardent is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ARDENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ardent in the English dictionary

The first definition of ardent in the dictionary is expressive of or characterized by intense desire or emotion; passionate. Other definition of ardent is intensely enthusiastic; eager. Ardent is also glowing, flashing, or shining.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ARDENT

accident · accordant · antecedent · concordant · decedent · discordant · fire-retardant · flame-retardant · gardant · guardant · intercedent · mordant · mordent · needn´t · non-student · prudent · regardant · retardant · student · verdant

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ARDENT

arcuated · arcuately · arcuation · arcubalist · arcus · arcus senilis · ardeb · Arden · ardency · Ardennes · ardent spirits · ardently · ardor · ardour · ardri · ardrigh · Ards · arduous · arduously · arduousness

WORDS THAT END LIKE ARDENT

college student · confident · correspondent · decadent · dent · dependent · evident · graduate student · ident · incident · independent · inverted mordent · lower mordent · precedent · president · resident · superintendent · trident · upper mordent · vice president

Synonyms and antonyms of ardent in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ARDENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ardent» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «ardent» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ARDENT

Find out the translation of ardent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ardent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ardent» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

热烈的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

ferviente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ardent
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

उत्साही
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المتحمسين
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

ярый
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

fervoroso
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

জ্বলন্ত
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

fervent
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Bersemangat
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

leidenschaftlich
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

熱烈な
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

열렬한
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ardent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hăng hái
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தீவிர
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

उत्कट
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ateşli
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

ardente
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

żarliwy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

затятий
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

înflăcărat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διακαής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vurige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ivrig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ildfull
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ardent

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ARDENT»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of ardent
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «ardent».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ardent

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «ARDENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ardent.
1
Sam Abell
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
2
Leon Askin
My father was an ardent socialist for many years.
3
William Bartram
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
4
Theodore Bikel
I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
5
David Brainerd
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
6
Georg Brandes
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
7
Brendon Burchard
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
8
Richard Cecil
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
9
Diogenes
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
10
Jackie Earle Haley
There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ARDENT»

Discover the use of ardent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ardent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back
Recounts the author's observations of post-World War II Great Britain, his Oxford University education, and his encounters with such figures as J.R.R. Tolkien, W.H. Auden, and Stephen Spender.
Reynolds Price, 2012
2
Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Using a wide variety of sources, Kobler quotes the amusing and often startling comments relating to the efforts of prohibitionists and lawmakers, so that the speakeasies, the rum-running, the bootleggers, and the gang wars all come vividly ...
John Kobler, 1993
3
Her Ardent Sheikh
“ As long as you are with me, no harm will come to you.” So Sheikh Ben Rassad promised to beauty-in-jeopardy Jamie Morris, who aroused his need to protect.
Kristi Gold, 2011
4
Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, ...
"In this collection of letters, Emma's writings reveal a woman of determination, faith, and integrity who embraced her own causes of women's rights and temperance while maintaining full support for her husband's controversial agenda.
Emma Frances Spaulding Bryant, Ruth Douglas Currie, 2004
5
Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety: The Portrayal of the ...
Ardent Complaints and Equivocal Piety treats three sets of medieval German crusade poems, in most of which the crusades are pictured as a source of distress, disenchantment, or even annoyance.
William E. Jackson, 2003
6
Ardent
Jane Gibian is one of Australia's most promising young poets.
Jane Gibian, 2007
7
The ardent pilgrim: an introduction to the life and work of ...
Exceptionally well-written and lucid, the biography contains numerous translations of Iqbal's poems.
Iqbal Singh, 1951
8
The Stone of Light: Volume III :Paneb the Ardent
As Nefer the Silent continues his odyssey, he joins forces with Paneb, a farmer's son who dreams of winning entry into the legendary Place of Truth, to stop the evil plans of the ruthless Mehy and to save the Pharaoh from a murderous ...
Christian Jacq, 2001
9
Through Fire and Water: Hms Ardent: The Forgotten Frigate of ...
In a war so well documented, this book is the first to tell their story, the first to explain why it all happened, the first to tell the true story of the forgotten frigate.
Mark Higgitt, 2001
10
Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester
Recounting a protest at Harvard that cost him his tenured position, the author tells moving stories of others who have challenged authority, questions the system, and examines the value of protest in protecting one's sense of self-worth. 25 ...
Derrick A. Bell, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ARDENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ardent is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Nine chairman David Haslingden steps in for the fun ride at Ardent
It must pain Ardent Leisure chairman, Neil Balnaves, that the theme park operator's share price has never recovered from the shock CEO ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
Ardent Capital Invests $2.5m in Indonesian B2B Portal Bizzy
Thailand-based venture capitalist Ardent Capital announced a $2.5 million investment in Bizzy.co.id, an Indonesian e-commerce marketplace ... «Jakarta Globe, Jul 15»
3
Even serious F1 fans think sport is 'boring' and 'expensive': survey
... the sports most ardent followers. When asked for the top three words they'd use to describe F1, most respondents answered “technological, ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
4
Exit from the euro may be Greece's best option
And even the most ardent supporters of European union should be breathing a sigh of relief. Of course, that's not the way the creditors would ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
5
Tiger Woods' Greenbrier Classic performance proof he's not done yet
Nobody but the most ardent Big Cat fan thinks the old Woods is ever coming back. But the Greenbrier provided for hope to those who just want ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
6
How the GOP Candidates Are Flailing on Common Core
The Conflicted rail against Common Core because it smacks of big government but were ardent supporters of the not-exactly-laissez-faire No ... «Mother Jones, Jul 15»
7
Ending Greece's Bleeding
And even the most ardent supporters of European union should be breathing a sigh of relief. Of course, that's not the way the creditors would ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
8
Ardent hits the ground running
Global maritime giants Svitzer and Titan Salvage recently announced the merger of their salvage divisions to be known as 'Ardent' (see 'MJ' ... «Maritime Journal, Jul 15»
9
Ardent Partners Announces “CPO Rising 2015” Procurement Summit
To help CPOs better understand what they can do improve their relevance, engagement, and results, Ardent Partners is pleased to announce ... «Virtual-Strategy Magazine, Jul 15»
10
School principal is ardent martial arts student
Innisfail martial arts enthusiast Wayne Pineau (in black), is seen here fighting a blue belt opponent from Sylvan Lake during the Bowden ... «Innisfail Province, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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