Today’s word of the day is ‘Spate.’ Let us understand more about this word.
[responsivevoice] spate [/responsivevoice] [ speyt ]
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. A river flood
2. An overflow
3. Series
4. Wave
1. Hindi – Jhonk
2. Spanish – Avalancha
3. French – Série
4. Mandarin – Lián pāi
1. His joy welled up and overflowed in him as overflows a river in a time of spate.
2. It was about the first day of October, and we had enjoyed a “spate.”.
3. I nodded, still marvelling over this spate of speech at the table.
4. It was obvious that these spars, like the anglers, were waiting for a spate.
5. Why the river was yesterday in spate, and she is fresh run from the sea.
Some synonyms of the word are:
flood, surge, tide, deluge, flow, stream, torrent, wave, inundation, overflow, outpouring, flux etc.
Some antonyms of the word are:
drip, shortage, drought, whit, rivulet, trickle, dribble, paucity, atom, fleck, rarity, jot, nubbin, molecule etc.
Quotation:
“I have since only rarely seen the tree with the lights in it. The vision comes and goes, mostly goes, but I live for it, for the moment when the mountains open and a new light roars in spate through the crack, and the mountains slam.”
Annie Dillard
Social Example:
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