Definitions
Speed or price; evaluate
Word origin
From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”).
Used in a sentence
“There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.”
“His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education.”
“At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Set value”4 letters
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