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optate

/ɒpˈteɪt/

optate verb: to choose, settle on, opt.

Verb

optate (third-person singular simple present optates, present participle optating, simple past and past participle optated)

  1. (literary, rare) To choose, settle on, opt.
    • While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais

optate meaning in Bengali

optate in Bengali

বেছে নেওয়া, কোনো বিষয়ে স্থির হওয়া, পছন্দ করা

Forms of optate

third-person singular presentoptates
present participleoptating
past participleoptated
pastoptated

Origin of optate

First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin optātus, perfect passive participle of optō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of opt.

Questions about optate

What does optate mean?
Optate means to choose, settle on, opt.
What is optate in Bengali?
Optate in Bengali is বেছে নেওয়া, কোনো বিষয়ে স্থির হওয়া, পছন্দ করা. See Optate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is optate?
Optate is a verb.
How do you pronounce optate?
Optate is pronounced /ɒpˈteɪt/.
What is the past tense of optate?
The past tense of optate is optated.

Words near optate in the dictionary

  1. optable
  2. optacon
  3. optacons
  4. optant
  5. optants
  6. optate
  7. optated
  8. optates
  9. optating
  10. optation
  11. optations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: optate (page history and authors); optate (Bengali 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.

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