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English

Pronunciation

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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪt|-eɪt

Noun

spate

a string, series or trend
:There has been a recent spate of burglary in the neighborhood.
A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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Romanian

Etymology

spatula from classical Latin spathae

Noun

Declension

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el:spate es:spate fr:spate hu:spate pl:spate ta:spate vi:spate zh:spate

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spate \Spate\, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. speid.]
A river flood; an overflow or inundation. --Burns.
[1913 Webster]

Gareth in a showerful spring
Stared at the spate. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet spate
n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, {good
deal}, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot,
quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, {tidy
sum}, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
2: a sudden forceful flow [syn: rush, surge, upsurge]
3: the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or
melting snow [syn: freshet]

Moby Dictionary
Niagara , abundance , acres , affluence , afflux , affluxion ,
ample sufficiency , ampleness , amplitude , army , asperse , avalanche ,
bags , barrels , batch , befoul , belch , bespatter , bespot , blacken ,
bonanza , bountifulness , bountiousness , brash , bumper crop , burst ,
burst of rain , bushel , cascade , cataclysm , cataract , cloudburst ,
cluster , cohue , concourse , confluence , conflux , considerable ,
copiousness , countlessness , course , crosscurrent , crowd , crush ,
current , deal , debouchment , defame , defluxion , deluge , denigrate ,
dissiliency , douse , downfall , downflow , downpour , drencher , drift ,
driftage , embarras de richesses , enough , eructation , eruption ,
extravagance , extravagancy , exuberance , fertility , flare-up , flock ,
flood , flooding , flow , flowing , fluency , flux , foison , fresh ,
freshet , full measure , fullness , galaxy , generosity , generousness ,
gobs , good deal , great abundance , great deal , great plenty , gush ,
gushing rain , heap , heaps , heavy rain , horde , host , inflow ,
inundation , jam , jet , landslide , lashings , lavishness , legion ,
liberality , liberalness , load , loads , lot , lots , luxuriance , mass ,
maximum , mess , mill run , millrace , mint , mob , money to burn ,
more than enough , mountain , much , multitude , myriad , myriads ,
numerousness , ocean , oceans , onrush , onset , onward course , oodles ,
opulence , opulency , outbreak , outburst , outflow , outflowing ,
outpouring , overabundance , overaccumulation , overbounteousness ,
overcopiousness , overdose , overflow , overlavishness ,
overluxuriance , overmeasure , overmuchness , overnumerousness ,
overplentifulness , overplenty , overpopulation , overprofusion ,
oversufficiency , oversupply , pack , panoply , peck , pile , piles ,
plash , plenitude , plenteousness , plentifulness , plenty , plethora ,
pot , pour , press , prevalence , prodigality , productiveness ,
profuseness , profusion , progression , quantities , quantity ,
quite a little , rabble , race , raft , rafts , rain , rainburst ,
rainspout , rainstorm , rapids , redundancy , repleteness , repletion ,
rich harvest , rich vein , richness , riot , riotousness , river , rout ,
ruck , run , rush , scads , scud , sea , series , set , shower , sight ,
slew , slews , slop , slosh , slur , smear , soaker , soaking rain ,
sparge , spew , spit , splatter , splosh , splurge , splutter , spout ,
spurt , spurtle , stack , stacks , stream , substantiality ,
substantialness , succession , superabundance , superfluity ,
superflux , surge , swash , teemingness , throng , tide , tidy sum , tons ,
torrent , torrent of rain , traduce , trend , undercurrent , undertow ,
volcan , volume , wad , wads , water flow , waterflood , waterspout ,
wealth , whole slew , world , worlds