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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈæ.dɪt/Part of speech nounSorted aditStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin aditus (“entrance, access”), from ad (“to, up to”) + itus (“going, departure”).

Used in a sentence

  • What all these passages are, of course I cannot say, but we thought that they must be the ancient workings of a mine, of which the various shafts and adits travelled hither and thither as the ore led them.
  • It consisted of an opening in the forest which clothed the hillside with the black mouth of an adit in the midst of it, and a few big mounds of debris, beside which stood a rude log shanty.
  • The Old Mine is currently entered through an upper adit as the main is no longer accessible.

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