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diplomates

diplomates is the plural of diplomate.

diplomates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of diplomate.

Meaning of diplomate

Noun

diplomate (plural diplomates)

  1. A professional who has earned a diploma.
    • You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Napoleon III in Italy”, in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 16

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Questions about diplomates

What is diplomates the plural of?
Diplomates is the plural of diplomate.

Words near diplomates in the dictionary

  1. diplomat puddings
  2. diplomat-speak
  3. diplomata
  4. diplomate
  5. diplomated
  6. diplomates
  7. diplomatese
  8. diplomatic
  9. diplomatic bag
  10. diplomatic bags
  11. diplomatic corps

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