Definitions for runagates

runagates run·a·gate

Spelling: [ruhn-uh-geyt]
IPA: /ˈrʌn əˌgeɪt/

Runagates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 587 anagrams from letters in runagates (aaegnrstu).

Definitions for runagates

noun

  1. a fugitive or runaway.
  2. a vagabond or wanderer.

Origin of runagates

1520-30; run (v.) + obsolete agate away; sense influenced by obsolete renegate (Middle English renegat Medieval Latin renegātus renegade)

Examples for runagates

The wife of Cosimo d'Anguissola a runagate with her husband's cousin?

No runagate serf in medival Europe was more severely dealt with than the Congo native who dared to range afield.

Osberne stood up and said: "What hast thou been about, runagate?"

Thou, false heretic and runagate, sayest that thou wilt not obey our General or Provincial Councils.

To avert suspicion that he meant to become a runagate, Ralegh was ready not to command, but to ship as a private man.

The Syrian runagate: perhaps I'm writing for nothing in trusting my letter to him.

"Nay, no runagate; he goes too slow ever to run," said Don Jordy.

"Well, I must say Marmaduke might have remembered that he had other relatives besides that runagate son," grumbled the squire.

The sight of Hamish at a carriage-door guided her to her runagate son.

Such was indeed my intention up to the year 1785, when I found this runagate at Vienna.

Word Value for runagates
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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