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NAT¹

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of National Party
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of North Atlantic Tracks
  3. Philippines, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Achievement Test

noun NATs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of nucleic acid test
  2. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of network address translation (“network address rewriting”).
  3. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of network address translator (“device that implements that network function; a NAT firewall”).
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of nonaccidental trauma
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of negative automatic thoughts

Nat²

  • /næt/

Sounds like gnat · Rhymes with -æt

proper noun Nats

  1. countable, uncountable A diminutive of the male given name Nathanael, Nathaniel, Nathan. Nathan was one of the tiniest, tottering along, holding on to the hand of a much older girl. Nat. Small like a gnat.
  2. countable, uncountable A diminutive of the female given name Natasha, Natalie, Natalia.
  3. countable, uncountable Nickname for Natsuki from the video game Doki Doki Literature Club!.
  4. countable, uncountable A surname.

noun Nats

  1. Australian, informal, slang A member or supporter of the Australian National Party.
  2. New Zealand, informal, slang A member or supporter of the New Zealand National Party.
  3. UK, informal, slang A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party.
  4. South African, dated, informal, slang A member or supporter of the National Party of South Africa.

nat³

  • /nɑːt/

Rhymes with -ɑːt

Where it comes from

Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).

noun nats

  1. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism. They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.

nat⁴

Where it comes from

Reduced form of naught.

adverb

  1. not comparable, obsolete Not. And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.

nat⁵

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of natural logarithm.

noun nats

  1. A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.

    Similar: nit, nepit

nat⁶

noun nats

  1. US, abbreviation, clipping, colloquial Clipping of natatorium

nat⁷

Where it comes from

Clipping of natural.

adjective

  1. abbreviation, clipping, not comparable, slang Clipping of natural (“pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result”). After rolling a Strength check to move a heavy cabinet, I got a nat 1 and the cabinet fell on me.

nat⁸

noun nats

  1. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of nationalist

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: senate, nta, ul, wet, nap, holotype, ki, tan, nats, ritch, nath, mur, murs, natl, rer, toxicol

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Chicago

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@misc{nat_2026,
  title = {nat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}