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pape

UK/peɪp/

pape noun: a painted bunting.

Noun (1)

pape (plural papes)

  1. A painted bunting.
  2. (Scotland) A Roman Catholic.

Noun (2) capitalized: Pape

Pape (plural Papes)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, derogatory) A Roman Catholic; a Papist.
    • If it was just Papes, if they were going to fight ye, ye would just fight them back.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 54

Proper noun capitalized: Pape

Pape (countable and uncountable, plural Papes)

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States, named after Gideon Pape.
  3. A village in Bijelo Polje municipality, Montenegro.

Forms of pape

Noun
pluralpapes
pluralPapes
Proper noun
pluralPapes

Plural of pape: papes

Origin of pape

Shortened from Papist.

Words that rhyme with pape

21 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about pape

What does pape mean?
Pape means a painted bunting.
What part of speech is pape?
Pape can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pape?
Pape is pronounced /peɪp/ (UK).
What is the plural of pape?
The plural of pape is papes.

Words near pape in the dictionary

  1. papboats
  2. Papcastle
  3. PAPD
  4. papdi
  5. papdis
  6. pape
  7. papeda
  8. papedas
  9. Papeete
  10. Papel
  11. papellony

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