Definitions for Agate

Agate ag·ate

Spelling: [ag-it]
IPA: /ˈæg ɪt/

Agate is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in Agate (aaegt).

Definitions for Agate

noun

  1. a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
  2. a playing marble made of this substance, or of glass in imitation of it.
  3. Printing. a 5½-point type of a size between pearl and nonpareil. Compare ruby (def 6).

Origin of Agate

1150-1200; Middle English ac(c)ate, achate, agaten (compare Dutch agaat, Old Saxon agāt, Old High German agat), apparently Old French agathe or Italian agata (initial stress) ≪ Medieval Latin

Examples for Agate

agate was widely used to carve high-value objects like signets and cylinder seals in the ancient Near East.

Suddenly all is light and life and flight, Upon the sandy bottom, agate strewn.

His child-like face, with the soft, agate eyes, expressed only bewilderment.

Some of the bracelets are furnished with studs set with agate or coral.

And, like Teddy, I was approached by agate to do business with him.

The cup in which it spins is made of agate flint, or other hard substance.

His press aide Mike Sitrick told me that the phone records released by agate "may be bogus."

While agate could likely be acquired much more cheaply, aristocratic Romans were serious about their agate.

Indeed, agate admitted in an April 2007 letter that he had been concocting lies and spreading false information about Teddy.

And this some seers have professed to be the virtue of a stone of agate.

Word Value for Agate
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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