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pate

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"Top of the head"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /peɪt/Part of speech nounSorted aeptStarts with PEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the top of the head

Word origin

From Middle English pate, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina (“pan, dish”). Alternatively, perhaps akin to Old Frisian pote (“skull”).

Used in a sentence

  • He had a shiny, bald pate.
  • For his vnhappynes ſhall come vpon his owne heade, ⁊ his wickednes ſhall fall vpon his owne pate.
  • The whole benighted, blooming crew, The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too, Are being beaten black and blue With bottles on the pate.

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