OBLATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oblate mean? 

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

1. a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life

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

• OBLATE (adjective)
  The adjective OBLATE has 1 sense:

1. having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles

  Familiarity information: OBLATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBLATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("oblate" is a kind of...):

religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)

• OBLATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles

Synonyms:

oblate; pumpkin-shaped

Also:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

Antonym:

prolate (having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter)

Derivation:

oblateness (the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles)