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   -ate

   /ət/

   suffix

   • 1. forming nouns denoting status or office: "doctorate"
   • ▪ forming nouns denoting a state or function: "curate"
   • 2. forming nouns denoting a group: "electorate"
   • 3. forming nouns denoting a salt or ester, especially of an acid with a corresponding name ending in -ic: "chlorate"
   • 4. forming nouns denoting a product of a chemical process: "condensate"

   Word Origin from Old French -at or Latin -atus, -ata, -atum.

   Scrabble Points: 3

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   I ate nothing the rest of the day. From the Cambridge English Corpus. See all examples of ate. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

3. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryATE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary - Cambridge...

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   I ate plenty of donuts and went to some local women's yoga classes to practice my suspicious stares. From CBS Local Then it ate the camera, and the camcorder, and then the screens sprouted in size and even the mighty television began to fall.

4. ate.com.sgATE

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   About. Established in the Republic of Singapore in 1998, ATE is a leading ISO9001 certified specialist company for process & environmental instrumentation and analytical systems integration.

5. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › ateAte Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Ate is the past tense of eat, a verb meaning to consume food. It can also be a noun suffix meaning office, function, rank, or group, or an adjective suffix meaning marked by having.

6. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishMeaning of ate – Learner’s Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary

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   ATE definition: past tense of eat. Learn more.

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › us › dictionaryATE definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary

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   Ate in American English. (ˈeiti, ˈɑːti) noun. an ancient Greek goddess personifying the fatal blindness or recklessness that produces crime and the divine punishment that follows it. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.

8. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › american_english › ate_1ate - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes |...

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   Definition of ate in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.