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Added 9 October 2026

slat

/slæt/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about slat at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A thin strip (wood or metal).

verb

Equip or bar with slats.
Slat the windows
Close the slats of (windows).

Origin

From Middle English slatte, sklatte, sklat, sclat, from Old French esclat (“piece broken or split off, shiver, splinter”), from Old French esclater (“to split, burst”), from Frankish *slaitijan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to rend, split”). Doublet of slate and éclat.

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