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ORATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orate mean?
• ORATE (verb)
The verb ORATE has 1 sense:
1. talk pompously
Familiarity information: ORATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it orates Past simple: orated
Past participle: orated
-ing form: orating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Talk pompously
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "orate" is one way to...):
speak; talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "orate"):
bloviate (orate verbosely and windily)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
orator (a person who delivers a speech or oration)
Context examples
Yes, I have been to half a dozen of their meetings, but that doesn't make me a socialist any more than hearing Charley Hapgood orate made me a Republican.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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