Definitions for orate

orate o·rate

Spelling: [aw-reyt, oh-reyt, awr-eyt, ohr-eyt]
IPA: /ɔˈreɪt, oʊˈreɪt, ˈɔr eɪt, ˈoʊr eɪt/

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

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in orate (aeort).

Definitions for orate

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to deliver an oration; speak pompously; declaim.

Origin of orate

First recorded in 1590-1600; back formation from oration

Examples for orate

Do you remember how you always used to let me orate to you when I had anything on hand for the rhetoricals?

Thornberry seemed ready to orate for an hour, but Bennington stopped him with a gesture.

He longed to orate about the woman who had his heart; yet she was the one topic that must be shirked.

Billy, he opened his mouth and he squared himself away to orate some.

Anyway, he got ten days, and he was due in three days to orate for Siwash against the whole Northwest.

Odd how Silomio's colleagues in late Ministry find business elsewhere when he rises to orate.

He was a good talker; he spoke many languages; he could orate with fluency and skilful guile.

Then the lawyer with the black beard arose and began to orate.

We do not all want to sing or all want to orate or all want to paint.

Elect′orate, the dignity or the territory of an elector: the body of electors; Elect′orship.

Word Value for orate
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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