Synonyms for pate

Grammar : Noun

Spell : peyt

Phonetic Transcription : peɪt

Définition of pate

Origin : "top of the head," early 14c. (late 12c. in surnames), of unknown origin; perhaps a shortened form of Old French patene or Medieval Latin patena, both from Latin patina "pan, dish" (see pan (n.)).

noun head

Example sentences :

As my horse crashed into him I struck at his pate with my pistol.
Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane

Ay, leeks is goot:—Hold you, there is a groat to heal your pate.
Extract from : « King Henry the Fifth » by William Shakespeare

I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days.
Extract from : « King Henry the Fifth » by William Shakespeare

He applies the cudgel as vigorously to the priest's pate as to the Lolardes back.
Extract from : « The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 » by Sebastian Brandt

Once he's got anything wedged in his pate there's no knocking it out.
Extract from : « The Power of Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy

For a moment or two a stranger might almost have believed that the pate was not bald.
Extract from : « Linda Tressel » by Anthony Trollope

My first is the same as my second, my third may be cracked, my whole is like your pate.
Extract from : « Fruits of Culture » by Leo Tolstoy

On one side of the volume was painted a bottle; on the reverse a pate.
Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe

None o' that Peterborough style of counting in the back of your pate.
Extract from : « The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete » by George Meredith

Pate Stewart,” the oppressive Earl, is chronicled at length in “the Diary.
Extract from : « The Pirate » by Sir Walter Scott

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