aureate
Americanadjective
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golden or gilded.
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brilliant; splendid.
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characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking.
adjective
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covered with gold; gilded
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of a golden colour
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(of a style of writing or speaking) excessively elaborate or ornate; florid
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Origin of aureate
1400–50; late Middle English aureat < Late Latin aureātus decorated with gold, equivalent to Latin aure ( us ) golden, of gold ( aur ( um ) gold + -eus adj. suffix) + -ātus -ate 1
Vocabulary lists containing aureate
Example Sentences
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Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021
But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2019
A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2017
This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.
From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012
The melancholy clouds sometimes make shadows on the field and hide its aureate wealth, and now they move, and slowly into sight there comes the golden glow of promise for an industrious land.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)
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