TATE

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

1. United States poet and critic (1899-1979)

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

• TATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States poet and critic (1899-1979)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Allen Tate; John Orley Allen Tate; Tate

Instance hypernyms:

critic (a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

 Context examples 

Every boat in the harbour seemed to be there, and the coffin was carried by captains all the way from Tate Hill Pier up to the churchyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead in the roadway opposite to its master's yard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It so happened that there was no one at the moment on Tate Hill Pier, as all those whose houses are in close proximity were either in bed or were out on the heights above.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Already it is arranged that his body is to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk for a piece and then brought back to Tate Hill Pier and up the abbey steps; for he is to be buried in the churchyard on the cliff.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)