Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having winglike extensions or parts; winged: alate leaves.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of late; lately.
- Winged; having membranous expansions like wings.
- Specifically— In botany, applied to stems and leaf-stalks with the edges or angles longitudinally expanded into leaf-like borders, or to other organs having membranous expansions: opposed to apterous.
- In conchology, having an expanded lip: applied to shells. See cut under A porrhaidæ.
- In architecture, having wings, as a building: as, “an alate temple,”
Wiktionary
- adj. entomology, botany Having winglike extensions or parts; winged.
- n. A winged, reproductive form of several social insects
- adv. archaic recently; lately; of late
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Archaic Lately; of late.
- adj. Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions
Etymologies
- a- + late (Wiktionary)
- Latin ālātus, from āla, wing. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You run for the VP GOP ticket, drag your family through the mud, travel to the lower 48, get inot sqabble wit alate nite comic, and you blame the media?”
“It was alate at night and a wee dram must affected the grey cell motion.”
“Before I woke Poddy I took care of that alate pseudosimian, that "fairy.”
“This latter name I consider the correct one, for these organs unquestionably preside over alate equilibrium: they are true balancers.”
“The old Battery out on the marshes was our place of study, and a broken slate and a short piece of alate pencil were our educational implements: to which Joe always added a pipe of tobacco.”
“This one had built its web around an outside light, where it managed to snare an ant alate.”
“New co-owner David Sullivan has reacted angrily to Spurs making alate move to take Gudjohnsen from Monaco, after the Icelandinternational had undergone a medical and looked set to join GianfrancoZola's squad.”
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Internet Archive: The Panoplist (and Missionary magazine) conducted by an association of ...
“Melanchthone conuerfam, fe alios verfus alate annos Vtll. adiunxiife orationi fuae de bello fufcipicndo et geren - do contre Turcas. —”
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“Such a alate of things was not favorable to the purpose of esploring the country and establiKhing roads.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alate’.
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Interesting words
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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difficult words
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euphonic logorrhea
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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wickedwitch's list
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alit, plinth, eclat, diaphanous, portico, nival, daedal, apse, fossa, pellet, avail, midge and 143 more...
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Flightful Forays
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vireo, tanager, scaup, lark, killdear, falcon, cormorant, becard, avocet, accipiter, peregrine, remex and 135 more...
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1906 Railway Cipher Code
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abdominal, abetting, abiology, ablative, abnormal, abominate, aboveboard, abrasive, absinth, abstinent, accursed, acetate and 212 more...
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Miscellany, pt. a
afterdamp, abluent, acanthoid, aquiline, acaulescent, aesthetic evil, armillary, armozeen, astucity, athletary, aberrant, abeyant and 118 more...
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freerice vocab
wrong answers + attractive new vocab
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Tweets
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hernesheir US Railway Assn. Standard Cipher Code, 1906; telegraphers' shorthand for "agent's balance sheet shows large balance; investigate and report". Jan 19, 2013