interjection
- Go away; begone (used as a command to depart).
Usage: archaic; literary
verb
- To go away; to depart.
Usage: archaic; intransitive
Examples
- Avaunt, thou villain! Leave this place at once.
- The knight cried 'Avaunt!' to the unwelcome stranger.
- She told the persistent beggar to avaunt and trouble her no more.
- Avaunt, ye demons of the night!
- The captain commanded his crew to avaunt the sinking vessel.