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osculate

/ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt//ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/

osculate verb: to kiss.

Verb

osculate (third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To kiss.
    • And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
  2. To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
  3. (intransitive) To make contact.
  4. (Vedic) To perform osculation.
  5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

Adjective

UK/ˈɒskjʊlət/US/ˈɑskjələt/

osculate (not comparable)

  1. Relating to kissing.
    Synonyms:
    osculatory

osculate meaning in Tamil and Bengali

osculate in Tamil

முத்தமிடுதல், முத்தங்கொடுத்தல், முத்தம் தருதல், அன்பு, காதல், இணைத்து

osculate in Bengali

চুম্বন করা

Synonyms of osculate

Forms of osculate

third-person singular presentosculates
present participleosculating
past participleosculated
pastosculated

Origin of osculate

Borrowed from Latin ōsculātus, perfect active participle of ōsculor (“to kiss”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōsculum (“a kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). See also oscillate.

From Latin ōsculātus.

Words formed from osculate

Questions about osculate

What does osculate mean?
Osculate means to kiss.
What is osculate in Tamil?
Osculate in Tamil is முத்தமிடுதல், முத்தங்கொடுத்தல், முத்தம் தருதல். See Osculate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is osculate?
Osculate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce osculate?
Osculate is pronounced /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of osculate?
The past tense of osculate is osculated.

Words near osculate in the dictionary

  1. osculance
  2. osculant
  3. osculants
  4. oscular
  5. oscularly
  6. osculate
  7. osculated
  8. osculates
  9. osculating
  10. osculating circle
  11. osculating circles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osculate (page history and authors); osculate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); osculate (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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