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Ornate Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ate

Ornate has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Verb
1

To adorn; to honour.

"The community gathered to ornate the temple gates with fresh flowers before the festival began."

Adjective
1

marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

"a flowery speech"

"ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"

2

Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

"The chandelier hanging from the ceiling was so ornate that it seemed more like a tangled mess of crystal than a light fixture."

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ate bate late gate kate date wate cate rate nate oate sate tate jate hate mate fate yate agate skate
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