Kant

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Kant¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Kant.

proper noun

  1. A surname from German.
  2. Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher. So it is natural to speak of a category of all categories, which we call CAT, the objects of which are all the categories, and the arrows of which are all the functors. This raises genuine problems. Is CAT a category in itself? Our answer here is to treat CAT as a regulative idea; that is, an inevit

Kant²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Kyrgyz Кант (Kant).

proper noun

  1. A city in Kyrgyzstan.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: immanuel kant, kantor, laplace, eberhard, studien, rim, brim, verge, margin, edge, border, lip, outline, side, limit, brink

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한국어칸트 kanteu
日本語カント kanto
中文康德 Kāngdé
हिन्दीकांत kānt, कांट kāṇṭ, काण्ट kāṇṭ
DeutschKant
РусскийКант

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@misc{kant_2026,
  title = {Kant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}