Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The human head, especially the top of the head: a bald pate.
- n. The mind or brain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The crown or top of the head, whether of a person or of an animal; in general, the head; the poll; the noddle: usually employed in a trivial or derogatory sense, like noddle, etc.
- n. The skin of a calf's head. Imp. Dict.
- n. Wit; cleverness; “brains”; “head.”
- n. In the fur trade, the fur from a black patch on the head of the wild rabbit.
- n. A badger.
- Weak and sickly.
- n. The flesh split obtained in splitting or leveling a side of leather.
Wiktionary
- n. The head, particularly the top or crown.
- n. archaic Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
- n. alternative spelling of pâté. (finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
- n. The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Now generally used in contempt or ridicule. The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
- n. The skin of a calf's head.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the top of the head
- n. liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
Etymologies
- c.1700, French pâté, from Old French paste, pastée. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The Canard Saucisson, duck sausage with a layer of country pate, is served with red wine mustard.”
“Pork roll and pate is a pretty standard banh mi ($5), but their version also throws in this Vietnamese “salami” which they import from California.”
“I use it in pate choux all the time to get more impressive volume with a crisp texture.”
“I make a smoked marlin pate that my guests love, and it is quite like yours.”
“Although melted cheese works quite nicely, liver pate is not a good topping for waffles; in fact, I might even be moved to use such harsh words as nauseating and inedible.”
“Once, indeed, when I was down from a blow on the pate from a Spanish axe, they rushed forward and kept my assailants at bay until rescue came.”
By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604
“Whenever popular cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) sketches his likeness, Zuma’s pate is faithfully anointed with a shower head”
“I really do enjoy liver, just haven't fixed it in years and a pate is a joy.”
“I've had it as pate, which is apparently not the way connoisseurs eat it.”
“I think I like the idea of pate more than I like the taste of it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pate’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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You ate what?
habituate, eventuate, accentuate, effectuate, perpetuate, exsanguinate, insinuate, evaluate, fluctuate, adequate, menstruate, disambiguate and 21 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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billy shakespeare's guide to good living
hurlyburly, nave, direful, whence, sooth, dwindle, tempest-tost, withal, selfsame, wrack, unfix, recompense and 142 more...
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heart of darkness
yawl, sea-reach, offing, barge, sprit, estuary, yarn, aft, mizzenmast, placid, gauzy, diaphanous and 141 more...
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traipsin' 'long through dis 'ear book...
Words which are either entirely new to me or;
Words which I comprehend generally but would prefer a more precise definition.
venality, seigneurial, mendicant, perforce, manse, glebe, trenchant, saw, obstreperous, profligate, dissipation, galliard and 176 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
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Bring up the bodies
Words found in Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
tussock, wisp, bolster, teeter-totter, pate, carp, sieve, sift
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The Confidence Man
Words to remember from Melville's "The Confidence Man"
chevalier, hawk, unalloyed, ex-officio, scruple, pertinacity, epithet, gilt, bedizen, embrasure, escritoire, squaw and 278 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of ...
Words I met while reading Cervantes' story.
lance, hale, lanthorn-jaws, knight-errantry, nay, expostulate, puling, massy, agreeable delusions, pasteboard, bestrid, sallied and 148 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pate.
bourne616 tons of meaning for this word Nov 25, 2012
pikachu ...and the wool of his pate shaved into queer patterns...
-Heart of Darknesss (Conrad)
Mar 19, 2011
madmouth Also the top of a bald man's head. Apr 13, 2009