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9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
adjective relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
adjective contingent on something else
originFrom Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- pendent 10
- depend 10
- pended 10
- pentene 9
- deepen 9
- peened 9
- penned 9
- denned 8
- dented 8
- needed 8
- tended 8
- ended 7