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
Other Word Forms
- aureately adverb
- aureateness noun
Etymology
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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The language here — which Walsh writes with aureate poeticism, full of vivid imagery and pointed symbolism — is what gives the show its melancholic beauty.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2021
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
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
Overhead the sky was tall with a few clouds in the west turning aureate.
From The Sensitive Man by Anderson, Poul William
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