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Meaning of cate | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
keɪt

Definitions

  1. A delicacy or item of food.
    in-plural
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.

Equivalents

Français caté
Polski frykas specjał
Português cate

Examples

“Kate of Kate-hall, my super-daintie Kate, / For dainties are all Kates, and therefore Kate / Take this of me, Kate of my consolation […]”
“Have we not heard of divers most fertile regions, plenteously yeelding al maner of necessary victuals, where neverthelesse the most ordinary cates [translating méz] and daintiest dishes, were but bread, water-cresses, and water?”
“All cates and dainties shall be stored there / Quickly on this feast-night: [...]”
“He did not at first produce the cates and vintages they expected; they looked, most of them, puzzled at the lack of materials of revelry.”
“Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of his colleague Cate Lemann, by Bry the Fly Guy (aka Dr Bryan Lessard), an entomologist at our insect collection.”

CEFR level

C2
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