Rant
verbTo speak or complain at length in a loud, angry, and excited way.
How to spell rant
4 letters · 1 syllable
How to pronounce rant
What does rant mean?
- verbTo speak or complain at length in a loud, angry, and excited way.
- nounA long, heated outburst of angry or excited complaint.
Rant in a sentence
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verb
He would often rant about the rising cost of parking near the office.
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noun
His email turned into a three-page rant about the new policy.
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verb
She tends to rant whenever the trains are delayed again.
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noun
The meeting ended with a furious rant from the head of finance.
Where does rant come from?
Language of origin: Dutch
This word comes from the Dutch verb 'ranten', which meant to rave, to talk foolishly, or to behave in a wild and excited way. English picked it up in the late 1500s, when contact between English and Dutch speakers across the North Sea was lively through trade and shipping. At first it carried the strong sense of ranting and raving like someone out of control, and it was often used to describe loud religious enthusiasts; in the 1600s a radical English sect was even mocked with the name 'Ranters'. Over time the meaning softened into the modern idea of a long, heated, and rather one-sided outburst of complaint. The spelling stays mercifully simple, a single short word with no silent letters, which is why the trap is mainly its closeness to similar little words rather than the spelling itself.
How the word is built
- rant (from Dutch ranten: to rave, talk wildly), used as a complete word with no affixes
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