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vulgate

Syllables: Vul·gate/ˈvʌlɡeɪt/

vulgate adjective: made common, published for common use.

Adjective

vulgate (comparative more vulgate, superlative most vulgate)

  1. (archaic) Made common, published for common use.
    Synonyms:
    vulgarized
  2. (not comparable, especially the Bible) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

Noun

vulgate (plural vulgates)

  1. The language of a people, especially the commoners.
    • The linguistic and socio-historical evidence herein examined suggests that the development of Coptic occurred in Ptolemaic Egypt, not only as a spoken vulgate in the Delta, but as a script produced through […]1988, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Journal, page 96
    • They might speak the local vulgate among themselves, and certainly among those they were trying to reach outside of the monastery, but read and spoke Latin for religious and official events.1995, William A. Katz, Dahl's history of the book, page 89
    Synonyms:
    vernacular, vulgar
  2. (especially the Bible) A common version or edition.

Verb

IPA/vʌlˈɡeɪt/

vulgate (third-person singular simple present vulgates, present participle vulgating, simple past and past participle vulgated)

  1. To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.
    • Ordinary and vulgated sources will usually give all that is needed for a broad outline1844, The Quarterly Review, volume 73
    • we have seen this in the way in which the affair of Capri has been everywhere vulgated, amid endless perversion and distortion1844, Colburn's United Service Magazine, volume 1

Proper noun capitalized: Vulgate

the Vulgate

  1. A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.

vulgate meaning in Urdu

vulgate in Urdu

قابل قبول نقل

Examples of vulgate in a sentence

  • English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).2004, Cornelius Cosgrove, Nancy Barta-Smith, In Search of Eloquence, page 187:
  • Amongst the traditional vulgated anecdotes floating about the world1864, Sir Francis Palgrave, The History of Normandy and of England Till 1101, volume 3:

Synonyms of vulgate

Forms of vulgate

Adjective
comparativemore vulgate
superlativemost vulgate
Noun
pluralvulgates
Verb
third-person singular presentvulgates
present participlevulgating
past participlevulgated
pastvulgated

Origin of vulgate

From Latin vulgātus, past participle of vulgō (“publish, make common, cheapen”).

Borrowed from Latin Vulgāta.

Words that rhyme with vulgate

Questions about vulgate

What does vulgate mean?
Vulgate means made common, published for common use.
What is vulgate in Urdu?
Vulgate in Urdu is قابل قبول نقل. See Vulgate meaning in Urdu.
How do you use vulgate in a sentence?
English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).
What part of speech is vulgate?
Vulgate can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vulgate?
Vulgate is pronounced /ˈvʌlɡeɪt/.

Words near vulgate in the dictionary

  1. vulgarizing
  2. vulgarly
  3. vulgarness
  4. vulgarnesses
  5. vulgars
  6. vulgate
  7. vulgated
  8. vulgates
  9. vulgation
  10. vulgaxanthin
  11. vulgaxanthins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vulgate (page history and authors); Vulgate (page history and authors); vulgate (Urdu 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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