ASLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aslant mean? 

• ASLANT (adjective)
  The adjective ASLANT has 1 sense:

1. having an oblique or slanted direction

  Familiarity information: ASLANT used as an adjective is very rare.

• ASLANT (adverb)
  The adverb ASLANT has 2 senses:

1. over or across in a slanting direction

2. at an oblique angle

  Familiarity information: ASLANT used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASLANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an oblique or slanted direction

Synonyms:

aslant; aslope; diagonal; slanted; slanting; sloped; sloping

Similar:

inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)

• ASLANT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Over or across in a slanting direction

Sense 2

Meaning:

At an oblique angle

Synonyms:

aslant; athwart; obliquely

Context example:

the sun shone aslant into his face

 Context examples 

It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Water-swept and aslant, it was preferable to the noisome, rat-haunted dungeons which served as cabins.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When at last we got into the town, the people came out to their doors, all aslant, and with streaming hair, making a wonder of the mail that had come through such a night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall say but little at present of their learning, which, for many ages, has flourished in all its branches among them: but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The maid looked aslant at him with laughing eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I, too, in the grey, small, antique structure, with its low roof, its latticed casements, its mouldering walls, its avenue of aged firs—all grown aslant under the stress of mountain winds; its garden, dark with yew and holly—and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom—found a charm both potent and permanent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)