Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "drat" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DRAT

Probably alteration of God rot.
info
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp
section

PRONUNCIATION OF DRAT

drat  [dræt] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRAT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drat is an exclamation.
Exclamation is an expression or voice that reflects an emotion or exaltation.

WHAT DOES DRAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Minced oath

A minced oath is a euphemistic expression formed by misspelling, mispronouncing, or replacing a part of a profane, blasphemous, or taboo term to reduce the original term's objectionable characteristics. Some examples include "gosh" for god, "darn" or "dang" for damn, and "heck" for hell. Many languages have such expressions. In English, nearly all profanities have minced variants.

Definition of drat in the English dictionary

The definition of drat in the dictionary is an exclamation of annoyance.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DRAT


Ararat
ˈærəˌræt
aristocrat
ˈærɪstəˌkræt
Ballarat
ˈbæləˌræt
brat
bræt
bureaucrat
ˈbjʊərəˌkræt
democrat
ˈdɛməˌkræt
frat
fræt
Herat
hɛˈræt
Montserrat
ˌmɒntsəˈræt
muskrat
ˈmʌskˌræt
plutocrat
ˈpluːtəˌkræt
prat
præt
pratt
præt
rat
ræt
scrat
skræt
searat
ˈsiːˌræt
sprat
spræt
surat
sjuːˈræt
technocrat
ˈteknəkræt
trat
træt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRAT

draperies
drapery
drapery shop
drapes
drapet
drapey
drappie
drappy
drastic
drastically
dratchell
dratted
Drau
draught
draught beer
draught excluder
draughtboard
draughter
draughtier
draughtiest

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRAT

apparat
baccarat
Bharat
black rat
Bundesrat
carat
curat
desert rat
Gujarat
hood rat
karat
mall rat
Marat
mole rat
morat
Murat
pack rat
quadrat
Seurat
smell a rat

Synonyms and antonyms of drat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «drat» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF DRAT

Find out the translation of drat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

DRAT
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

drat
570 millions of speakers

English

drat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

drat
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

drat
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

поди ж ты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

drat
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিরক্তি প্রকাশ করতে ব্যবহৃত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

zut
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Drat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

drat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

DRAT
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

분하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

drat
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நாசமாக்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Drat
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Allah´ın cezası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

drat
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

drat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ти диви
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

la dracu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σχέδιο αποτελεί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

scheer jou weg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drat
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drat

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRAT»

The term «drat» is regularly used and occupies the 83.595 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
61
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «drat» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of drat
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «drat».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRAT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drat» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drat» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAT»

Discover the use of drat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Drat! You Copycat!
Katie agrees to be a buddy for the new girl in class even though her best friend Suzanne does not approve.
Nancy E. Krulik, 2008
2
Drat! We're Rats!
McGee, Gwen, Mary Bubnik, Zan, and Rocky are more interested in playing ice hockey than ballet, but the five friends are forced to audition at Deerfield Ballet for a role in The Nutcracker.
Jahnna N. Malcolm, 2000
3
Drat That Fat Cat!
A fat cat in search of food eats up everything he meets until he swallows a bee.
Pat Thomson, 2003
4
Drat That Cat!
Tony Ross. Sometimes, the twins found warm cat poo that Suzy had just buried in the garden. they squealed. “Drat that. cat!” “Eeeeuuuuuuuckk!” Then one terrible day Suzy stopped eating. The twins put.
Tony Ross, 2013
5
Drat the boys! Or, Recollections of an ex-French master in ...
Léon Paul Blouët. At dictation time the two-eared boy is terrible, and you need aH the self-control you have acquired on these shores to keep your head cool. Before beginning, you warn him that a mute e, or an s, placed at the end of a vowel, ...
Léon Paul Blouët, 1886
6
Nitrogen Fixation: Fundamentals and Applications: ...
result from non-covalent associations of DRAT, DRAG and effector molecules, because the regulation is lost upon extraction of DRAT and DRAG from the cell and no evidence for covalent modification(s) has been obtained by analysis of ...
Igor A. Tikhonovich, 1995
7
Genetics and Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation in Free-Living ...
The structural genes for both DRAG (draG) and DRAT (draT) have been cloned from R. rubrum (Fitzmaurice et al., 1989). ADP-ribosylation of nitrogenase has been reported in a variety of other diazotrophs and indeed, the draT and draG ...
Werner Klipp, Bernd Masepohl, John R. Gallon, 2006
8
An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, ...
Drat is a predominantly British imprecation or expression of annoyance, now fairly dated, commonly applied to things or situations, as in drat it!, but occasionally to people, as in drat the man! Although it means virtually the same as damn or ...
Geoffrey Hughes, 2006
9
Biological Nitrogen Fixation for the 21st Century
The properties of the system in A. brasilense have recently been reviewed ( Zhang, et al., 1997) The DRAG/DRAT cycle. In a sense, the above information explains how nitrogenase activity is regulated: the regulation reflects the net effect of the ...
Claudine Elmerich, Adam Kondorosi, William E. Newton, 1997
10
The Era Druggists' Directory
HILLSBORO — Orange Co. No7 Hayes, W. A. West End Drat Co. (C M. Andrem) HOBG00D— Hillfax Co. 165 LeEgett, K. hOFFNAN— Richmond Co. 400 Hoffman Drat Co. HILLY SPRINGS— Wake Co. 261 Price, W. L. Seagroves, J. B. ft w.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drat is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What the Jason Frasor move really means
Brooks Baseball's zone profiles are down (DRAT!!!!), but Fangraphs has some zone profiles too. Their zone profiles show pitches being left up ... «Royals Review, Jul 15»
2
Small Cap Value Report (9 Jul 2015) - Budget, PLUS, GOAL
(Drat, sorry only just realised that SurveyMonkey only allows 100 responses, I have to pay £299 to upgrade for 1,000 responses, what a ... «Stockopedia, Jul 15»
3
10 Weird Questions: Jayme Foxx
I'd use my lips. [winks]. MCD: Wait, this is a kissyface duel? Why did we leave it open challenge, then? Drat. What job would you be terrible at, ... «CBS Local, Jul 15»
4
Greece says no – but this isn't over yet
Because – drat them all – each country involved has its own set of voters to keep happy as well. And when a large majority of Germans reckon ... «MoneyWeek, Jul 15»
5
Polar bears are at risk due to Arctic warming: FWS
In the drat plan, which is part of the process to conserve species listed as threatened in 2008, the FWS said, "The single most important step for ... «NY City News, Jul 15»
6
Drat It | Confessions of a would-be recycler
Regular visitors to our home are familiar with the pile of junk that accumulates at the bottom of our basement stairs. To the untrained eye, I'm ... «Mansfield News Journal, Jul 15»
7
African quartet in the Orlando Summer League
Former Southern Methodist University Yanick Moreira, who went undrafted in last week's 2015 NBA drat, will be playing for the Los Angeles ... «SuperSport, Jul 15»
8
BCD writes to Centre for removal of DRAT Chairman
Days after the lawyers of Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal (DRAT) Bar Association abstained from work, the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) has ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
9
Friday Morning Fly By: Happy 3rd of July!
*Welcome to the Flyers, Ivan Provorov! The Flyers don't drat a lot of you people so please feel special. [BSH]. *The Flyers made another depth ... «Broad Street Hockey, Jul 15»
10
Oilers sign McDavid
The Oilers drafted McDavid 1st overall in the 2015 Entry Drat. As the Oilers made the announcement, McDavid took the ice at Rexall Place for ... «iNews880.com, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Drat [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/drat>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z