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Webster 1913 Edition

Prate

Prate

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Prated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Prating
.]
[Akin to LG. & D.
praten
, Dan.
prate
, Sw. & Icel.
prata
.]
To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
To
prate
and talk for life and honor.
Shakespeare
And make a fool presume to
prate
of love.
Dryden.

Prate

,
Verb.
T.
To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master,
prate
,
When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate !
Dryden.

Prate

,
Noun.
[Akin to LG. & D.
praat
, Sw.
prat
.]
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Sick of tops, and poetry, and
prate
.
Pope.

Webster 1828 Edition

Prate

PRATE

,
Verb.
I.
To talk much and without weight, or to little purpose; to be loquacious; as the vulgar express it, to run on.
To prate and talk for life and honor,
And make a fool presume to prate of love.

PRATE

,
Verb.
T.
To utter foolishly.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate,
When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate?

PRATE

,
Noun.
Continued talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

Definition 2024

prate

prate

English

Noun

prate ‎(plural prates)

  1. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

Translations

Derived terms

Verb

prate ‎(third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)

  1. To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
    • Dryden
      What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!

Synonyms

Translations

References

  • (etymology) prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
  • (etymolohy) prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

prate

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of praten

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

prate ‎(imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)

  1. to chat (om / about)

Derived terms

References

Etymology

From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten ‎(“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, Danish prate, Swedish prata ‎(“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta ‎(“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz ‎(“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- ‎(“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzić ‎(“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt ‎(“to talk nonsense”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪt

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