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• ATE (noun)
  The noun ATE has 1 sense:

1. goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

  Familiarity information: ATE used as a noun is very rare.

• ATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

 Context examples 

And he passed into their igloo and ate profoundly, and after that slept for twenty running hours.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Then he asked his wife for more pudding, and as he ate, he threw the bones under the table.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He was unaware of what he ate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, you’re out there, sir, as it happens, for he ate a remarkable big breakfast this morning.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But they were not asked to specify which type of chocolate they ate.

(Eat Chocolate for Steady Heartbea, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He followed him about at his work, watched him while he ate, saw him into his blankets at night and out of them in the morning.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Dr Mujcic found participants were at their happiest when they ate five portions of fruit and four portions of vegetables each day.

(Fruit and veggies pave the road to happiness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But he sat as on the previous night, and chatted whilst I ate.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This represented an 81% reduction of peanut allergy in children who regularly ate peanut products beginning in infancy.

(Peanut Consumption in Infancy Lowers Peanut Allergy, NIH)