pit – English noun declension

English noun forms of pit

Noun: pit
Singularpit
Pluralpits

Sample Sentences

  • The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
  • 27 Whoso diggeth a pit, shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will returne vpon him. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 26:27:]
  • Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.
  • The exact sites of Feng and Hao have yet to be verified, but seven pits containing chariots, horses and other Zhou burial objects were discovered at Fengxi, and a concentration of Western Zhou relics and tombs was found in the area of Doumen in Changan County on the east bank of the Feng River. [1991 [1987], Zou Zongxu, translated by Susan Whitfield, The Land Within the Passes: A History of Xian, Viking, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:]
  • [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […]. [2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:]
  • Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained. [1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • He keepeth back his soul from the pit. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job xxxiii:18:]
  • as fiercely as two game-cocks in the pit [1693, [John Locke], “§145”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:]
  • His circus job was the pits, but at least he was in show business.
  • Because the museum was closed for renovation, the school decided to bring its fourth-graders to the pit at a Cannibal Corpse gig instead.
  • The ball carrier can be with or without a football. For the “Head-On” tackle have the “Ball Carrier” stand right in front of the pit and face the tackler. [2007, Bob Swope, Youth Football Drills and Plays Handbook, page 29:]
  • “They don't call the middle of the line The Pit for nothing. We really do get like animals, trying to claw one another apart in there. It is very hard in The Pit. No matter how it seems, no matter what the score shows, it's always hard. […] [2018, Paul Zimmerman, The New Thinking Man's Guide to Professional Football:]
  • Many Bacardi & Cokes later I climbed up into my pit and fell into a deep sleep, and woke up at one thirty in the morning and threw up my tea. [2009, Julian Beirne, Diary of a Sapper, page 55:]
  • This house is a total pit. We've got to do some cleaning!
  • He was in a pit of despair.
  • Get back to the pit, dish bitch!
  • The plot takes us through the "sleaze pits", the lower West Side leather bars, which Travis notes with undue repulsion. [1979 April 28, Eric Rofes, “New Yech, New Yech”, in Gay Community News, page 14:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *puti
3. Old English pytt
4. Middle English pit
5. English pit
6. From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties. See: Middle English Nouns 'pit', Old English Nouns 'pytt', Latin Nouns 'puteus'.

Verbs referencing "pit"

English Nouns pothole, Spanish Nouns pozo.