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bote

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /bəʊt/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /boʊt/
  • rhymes with -əʊt
  • rhymes with -oʊt

1

noun

Meaning 1

Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, historical, uncountable

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: recompense, remuneration, restitution, amends, acquittal, assyth, bote, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, mends, quittal, recompensation, redress, relief, reparation, requital, requite, satisfaction

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, historical, uncountable

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A right to take wood from property not one's own.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, historical, uncountable

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).