Standard Lemma guide

urate

noun · 2 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • /ˈjʊəɹeɪt/

1

noun

Meaning 1

Any salt of uric acid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences

Examples

  • The deposition of urate crystals in the joints leads to gout.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a salt of uric acid

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: salt

Narrower terms: tophus, chalkstone

History

Etymology

From uric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Across languages

Translations

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 尿酸鹽 /尿酸盐 (niàosuānyán) — any salt of uric acid
  • Czech: močan — any salt of uric acid
  • Czech: urát — any salt of uric acid
  • Finnish: uraatti — any salt of uric acid
  • French: urate — any salt of uric acid
  • Indonesian: urat — any salt of uric acid
  • Japanese: 尿酸塩 (nyōsan'en) — any salt of uric acid
  • Polish: moczan — any salt of uric acid
  • Turkish: ürat — any salt of uric acid