Noun: oliphant
| Singular | oliphant |
| Plural | oliphants |
Sample Sentences
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She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare,
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Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude.
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[…]
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His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes
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Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds
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His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants. [1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:]
Nouns inflected like oliphant
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English olifaunt, from Anglo-Norman oliphant (“ivory, elephant”) and Old French oliphant (“ivory, elephant, musical horn of ivory”), from Latin elephantus (“elephant”), from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας (eléphas, “ivory, elephant”). See: Middle English Nouns '
olifaunt', Latin Nouns '
elephantus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἐλέφας'.