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- [paht]
- /pɑt/
- /peɪt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [paht]
- /pɑt/
Definitions of pate word
- noun pate porcelain paste used in ceramic work. 1
- noun pate food: liver paste 1
- noun pate top of the head 1
- countable noun pate Your pate is the top of your head. 0
- variable noun pate Pâté is a soft mixture of meat, fish, or vegetables with various flavourings, and is eaten cold. 0
- noun pate the head, esp with reference to baldness or (in facetious use) intelligence 0
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Origin of pate
First appearance:
before 1860 One of the 29% newest English words
From French, dating back to 1860-65; See origin at paste
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Pate
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
pate popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 83% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
pate usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for pate
noun pate
- capitula — Biology. any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone.
- capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
- cerebrum — the anterior portion of the brain of vertebrates, consisting of two lateral hemispheres joined by a thick band of fibres: the dominant part of the brain in man, associated with intellectual function, emotion, and personality
- coconut — A coconut is a very large nut with a hairy shell, which has white flesh and milky juice inside it.
- gray matter — Anatomy. nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, that contains fibers and nerve cell bodies and is dark reddish-gray. Compare white matter.
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