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patens

patens is the plural of paten.

Meaning of paten

Noun

paten (plural patens)

  1. The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist.
    • He longed […] to stand aloof from the altar, forgotten by the people, his shoulders covered with a humeral veil, holding the paten within its folds […].1916, James Joyce, chapter IV, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
  2. Any shallow dish found in an archaeological site.

Questions about patens

What is patens the plural of?
Patens is the plural of paten.

Words near patens in the dictionary

  1. patenas
  2. Patenaude
  3. Patenaudes
  4. patencies
  5. patency
  6. patens
  7. patent
  8. patent ambush
  9. patent ambushes
  10. patent fuel
  11. patent fuels

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