passant

• passaunt (obsolete)

From Anglo-Norman passant, Middle French passant.

passant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of a four-legged animal) Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground. [from 15th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto I:

     He them espying, gan himselfe prepare, / And on his arme addresse his goodly shield / That bore a Lion passant in a golden field.

2. (obsolete) Currently in use; in vogue. [17th-19th c.]
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7:

     Many opinions are passant concerning the basilisk, or little king of serpents, commonly called the cockatrice [...].

passant (plural passants)

1. (chess) part of the phrase en passant

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /pəˈsant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pəˈsan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /paˈsant/

passant

1. present participle of passar

passant

1. beyond, past
2. around (e.g. a corner)

   La botiga és només passant la cantonada.

   The shop is just around the corner.

From Middle French passant.

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• Hyphenation: pas‧sant

passant m (plural passanten, diminutive passantje n)

1. passer-by

   De passanten negeerden de doedelzakspeler voornamelijk, maar sommigen gooiden wat in zijn pet.

   The passers-by mostly ignored the piper, but some threw something in his cap.

• voorbijganger

First attested in Old French.

• IPA^(key): /pɑ.sɑ̃/, /pa.sɑ̃/

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passant m (plural passants)

1. passer-by
   • 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et C^ie, éditeurs, […], OCLC 763899327:

     « Arrête, larron ! s’écriait-il ; arrête, félon, bandit, détrousseur de passants ; je te tiens ici, et ton cimeterre ne te sera bon à rien. »

     "Stop, thief!" cried he; "Stop, traitor, bandit, robber of passers-by; I hold thee here, and thy scimitar will be of no use to thee."

2. loop (in belt etc.)

passant (feminine singular passante, masculine plural passants, feminine plural passantes)

1. busy (as in a busy street)
2. (heraldry) passant

passant

1. present participle of passer

• “passant” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

passant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of passō

passant

1. present participle of passer

• English: passant