cate
/keɪt/
cate noun: a delicacy or item of food.
Noun
cate (plural cates)
- A delicacy or item of food.
- Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 101
Proper noun capitalized: Cate
Cate
- A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
- Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of his colleague Cate Lemann, by Bry the Fly Guy (aka Dr Bryan Lessard), an entomologist at our insect collection.2019 July 1, “A Game of Flies: naming 230 new species”, in CSIRO
cate meaning in Tamil
cate in Tamil
- சுவையுணா தேர்வு
Examples of cate in a sentence
- All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for...
- He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
Forms of cate
| plural | cates |
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Origin of cate
Aphetized from acate, from Old Northern French acat (“purchase”).
Words that rhyme with cate
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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 cate
- What does cate mean?
- Cate means a delicacy or item of food.
- What is cate in Tamil?
- Cate in Tamil is சுவையுணா தேர்வு. See Cate meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use cate in a sentence?
- All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]
- What part of speech is cate?
- Cate can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cate?
- Cate is pronounced /keɪt/.
- What is the plural of cate?
- The plural of cate is cates.
Words near cate in the dictionary
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