mote

mote ¹  (mt)

n.

A very small particle; a speck: "Dust motes hung in a slant of sunlight" (Anne Tyler).

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[Middle English mot, from Old English.]

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mote ²  (mt)

aux.v. Archaic

May; might.

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[Middle English moten, from Old English mtan; see med- in Indo-European roots.]

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mote

Noun

a tiny speck [Old English mot]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mote - (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything corpuscle, particle, speck, molecule, atom grain - a relatively small granular particle of a substance; "a grain of sand"; "a grain of sugar" grinding - material resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain" material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" chylomicron - a microscopic particle of triglycerides produced in the intestines during digestion; in the bloodstream they release their fatty acids into the blood flyspeck - a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly identification particle - a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture

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mote

noun speck, spot, grain, particle, fragment, atom, mite