noun
Meaning 1
An elder sister
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
ate
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Philippines: /ˈʔɐ.te/
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āt
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ĕt
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /eɪt/
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Canada: [eːt]
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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/ɛt/ dialectal, now chiefly UK and Commonwealth, sometimes Ireland, occasionally Southern US
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rhymes with -eɪt
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rhymes with -ɛt
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homophone: ait
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homophone: eight
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homophone: eyot
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CMU ARPABET: EY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines
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verb
Meaning 3
simple past of eat
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, past
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verb
Meaning 4
past participle of eat
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past
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noun
Meaning 5
goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Greek deity
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”).
Probably a remodelling of earlier eat by analogy with other strong verbs such as break:†brake, give:gave, speak:†spake; compare the same process in rare Middle English at (“ate”) besides more usual et. However, the pronunciation /ɛt/ likely continues Middle English et, from Old English ǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ēt, with shortening as in e.g. thread.