amate
/əˈmɑːteɪ//əˈmɑteɪ/
amate noun: paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
Noun
amate (plural amates)
Verb (1)
UK/əˈmeɪt/
amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)
- To dishearten, dismay.
- Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii
Verb (2)
UK/əˈmeɪt/
amate (third-person singular simple present amates, present participle amating, simple past and past participle amated)
Examples of amate in a sentence
- The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn]...
- For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated., Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230
- Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.c. 1815, John Keats, To Chatterton:
Forms of amate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | amates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | amates |
| present participle | amating |
| past participle | amated |
| past | amated |
Origin of amate
From Spanish (papel) amate (“amate paper”), from Classical Nahuatl āmatl (“paper”).
From Old French amater, amatir.
From a- + mate.
Words that rhyme with amate
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- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about amate
- What does amate mean?
- Amate means paper produced from the bark of adult Ficus trees.
- How do you use amate in a sentence?
- The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
- What part of speech is amate?
- Amate can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce amate?
- Amate is pronounced /əˈmɑːteɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of amate?
- The plural of amate is amates.
Words near amate in the dictionary
Source and license
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