What does spate mean?

Definitions for spate
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadnoun

    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

  2. rush, spate, surge, upsurgenoun

    a sudden forceful flow

  3. freshet, spatenoun

    the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow

Wiktionary

  1. spatenoun

    A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

  2. spatenoun

    A sudden rush or increase.

  3. Etymology: Of Celtic origin; compare Irish speid.

ChatGPT

  1. spate

    A spate is a large number or amount of something, typically a sudden or outburst of something in large amounts. It can also refer to a sudden flood or rush of water, especially after heavy rain.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Spatenoun

    a river flood; an overflow or inundation

  2. Etymology: [Of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. speid.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Spate

    Spait, spāt, n. a sudden flood, as in a stream after heavy rain. [Prob. Ir. speid.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SPATE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Spate is ranked #75799 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Spate surname appeared 254 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Spate.

    75.9% or 193 total occurrences were White.
    20.8% or 53 total occurrences were Black.
    2.7% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Anagrams for spate »

  1. paste

  2. pates

  3. pâtés

  4. peats

  5. septa

  6. stape

  7. tapes

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of spate in a Sentence

  1. Elvis Picardo:

    It's essentially followthrough selling from last week because OPEC's decision not to cut output has had a catastrophic impact on the energy producers, the continued spate of bad news on crude oil has spooked investors.

  2. The Ministry:

    The Education Ministry is taking the recent spate of 'poisoned track' cases on campuses in a number of locations very seriously.

  3. Rick Ector:

    A huge reason was that there was a huge spate of homeowners using their guns against intruders. More people have guns and it’s making burglars cautious.

  4. John Kerry:

    We continue to be deeply concerned by the recent spate of increased violence along the working boundary and the line of control, it is profoundly in the interests of Pakistan and India to move this relationship forward.

  5. Gerald McMahon:

    With the recent spate of videos of UFO sightings that the Air Force and government are saying are the real thing.

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