Word.ws English Dictionary

oblate

/ˈɒbleɪt/US/ˈɑbleɪt/

oblate noun: a person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.

Noun

oblate (plural oblates or oblati)

  1. A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
  2. A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
    • 2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19

Adjective (1)

oblate (not comparable)

  1. (capitalized) Designating a person who is an oblate, of or belonging to an order of oblates.
    • an Oblate Father

Adjective (2)

oblate (comparative more oblate, superlative most oblate)

  1. Flattened or depressed at the poles.
    • The Earth is an oblate spheroid.
    • Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange?1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Verb

oblate (third-person singular simple present oblates, present participle oblating, simple past and past participle oblated)

  1. (rare) To offer as either a gift or an oblation.

oblate meaning in Urdu and Kannada

oblate in Urdu

جاں نثار, معنون, نذر کردہ

oblate in Kannada

ದೀಕ್ಷಿತ, ದೀಕ್ಷಾಬದ್ಧ

Antonyms of oblate

Forms of oblate

Noun
pluraloblates
pluraloblati
Adjective
comparativemore oblate
superlativemost oblate
Verb
third-person singular presentoblates
present participleoblating
past participleoblated
pastoblated

Origin of oblate

From French oblat and its source, Ecclesiastical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), nominalization of oblātus, perfect passive participle of offerō (“to offer”); see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

From Late Latin oblātus, from Latin ob (“in front of, before”) + lātus (“broad, wide”), (modeled after prōlātus (“extended, lengthened”)).

Borrowed from Latin oblātus, perfect passive participle of offerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of offer.

Words formed from oblate

Phrases with oblate

Questions about oblate

What does oblate mean?
Oblate means a person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
What is oblate in Urdu?
Oblate in Urdu is جاں نثار, معنون, نذر کردہ. See Oblate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is oblate?
Oblate can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce oblate?
Oblate is pronounced /ˈɒbleɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of oblate?
The plural of oblate is oblates.

Words near oblate in the dictionary

  1. oblast
  2. oblastal
  3. oblasti
  4. oblasts
  5. oblata
  6. oblate
  7. oblate spheroid
  8. oblate spheroids
  9. oblated
  10. oblately
  11. oblateness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oblate (page history and authors); oblate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oblate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-oblate.wav.

Cite this entry: “oblate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oblate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.