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aureate

[ awr-ee-it, -eyt ]

adjective

  1. golden or gilded.
  2. brilliant; splendid.
  3. characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking.


aureate

/ -ˌeɪt; ˈɔːrɪɪt /

adjective

  1. covered with gold; gilded
  2. of a golden colour
  3. (of a style of writing or speaking) excessively elaborate or ornate; florid
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈaureateness, noun
  • ˈaureately, adverb
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Other Words From

  • aure·ate·ly adverb
  • aure·ate·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of aureate1

1400–50; late Middle English aureat < Late Latin aureātus decorated with gold, equivalent to Latin aure ( us ) golden, of gold ( aur ( um ) gold + -eus adj. suffix) + -ātus -ate 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of aureate1

C15: from Late Latin aureātus gilded, from Latin aureus golden, from aurum gold
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Example Sentences

The language here — which Walsh writes with aureate poeticism, full of vivid imagery and pointed symbolism — is what gives the show its melancholic beauty.

Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.

But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting.

A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.

This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.

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