'Mite' definitions:
Definition of 'mite'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Mite'
From: GCIDE
- Mite \Mite\ (m[imac]t), n. [AS. m[imac]te mite (in sense 1); akin to LG. mite, D. mijt, G. miete, OHG. m[imac]za; cf. Goth. maitan to cut.]
- 1. (Zool.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the dust mite, cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, three-toed spider mite, etc. See Acarina. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [D. mijt; prob. the same word.] A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. [1913 Webster]
- Two mites, which make a farthing. --Mark xii. 49. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. [1913 Webster]
- For in effect they be not worth a myte. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'mite'
From: Easton
- Mite contraction of minute, from the Latin minutum, the translation of the Greek word lepton, the very smallest bronze of copper coin (Luke 12:59; 21:2). Two mites made one quadrans, i.e., the fourth part of a Roman as, which was in value nearly a halfpenny. (See FARTHING.)
Synonyms of 'mite'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ace,
- arachnid,
- arthropod,
- atom,
- bairn,
- bawbee,
- beetle,
- bit,
- bug,
- cat flea,
- caterpillar,
- centipede,
- cherub,
- chigoe,
- child,
- chilopod,
- chit,
- cockroach,
- crab,
- crown,
- crumb,
- dab,
- daddy longlegs,
- darling,
- diplopod,
- dog flea,
- dole,
- dollar,
- dot,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- farthing,
- fiver,
- flea,
- fleck,
- florin,
- fly,
- flyspeck,
- fourpence,
- fourpenny,
- fragment,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- grayback,
- groat,
- guinea,
- hair,
- half crown,
- half dollar,
- half rations,
- halfpenny,
- handful,
- harvestman,
- hexapod,
- innocent,
- insect,
- iota,
- jigger,
- jot,
- kid,
- kitten,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- larva,
- little,
- little bit,
- little bugger,
- little fellow,
- little guy,
- little innocent,
- little one,
- little tad,
- little tot,
- lota,
- louse,
- mag,
- maggot,
- meg,
- mere subsistence,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- millepede,
- millipede,
- minim,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- monkey,
- mote,
- new pence,
- nipper,
- nit,
- np,
- nutshell,
- nymph,
- offspring,
- ounce,
- p,
- parasite,
- particle,
- pebble,
- peewee,
- pence,
- penny,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- pony,
- pound,
- quid,
- red bug,
- roach,
- sand flea,
- scorpion,
- scrap,
- scrimption,
- scruple,
- shaver,
- shilling,
- short allowance,
- short commons,
- sixpence,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spider,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- starvation wages,
- tad,
- tarantula,
- tenner,
- thimbleful,
- threepence,
- threepenny bit,
- thrippence,
- tick,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- tot,
- trifling amount,
- trivia,
- tuppence,
- twopence,
- vanishing point,
- vermin,
- wee tot,
- weevil,
- whit