Definitions for aureate

aureate au·re·ate

Spelling: [awr-ee-it, -eyt]
IPA: /ˈɔr i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/

Aureate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in aureate (aaeertu).

Definitions for aureate

adjective

  1. golden or gilded.
  2. brilliant; splendid.
  3. characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking.

Origin of aureate

1400-50; late Middle English aureat Late Latin aureātus decorated with gold, equivalent to Latin aure(us) golden, of gold (aur(um) gold + -eus adj. suffix) + -ātus Examples for aureate

It was after the Restoration that the aureate earth at Kinneff was dug up.

The aureate light, streaming on, beat full upon the howitzer and on the living and unwounded of its men.

The night died suddenly and the day was upon them, an aureate god, lavish of splendor.

Here and there the falling golden leaves of a pomegranate made an aureate glow on the red-brown earth.

The golden statue veered in the changing breeze, menacing many points on the horizon with its aureate arrow.

Caiques carrying merchants to their homes somewhere along the upper shores were burnished with the aureate hue.

As though spellbound, Chichikov sat in an aureate world of ever-growing dreams and fantasies.

And just across the area the sun was already beginning to wash all the roofs with its aureate light.

Word Value for aureate
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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