Oblate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɒbleɪt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Oblate is a noun meaning A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
Meaning
A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
More Meanings
- Flattened or depressed at the poles.
- (Roman Catholicism) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
- (chiefly capitalized) Designating a person who is an oblate, of or belonging to an order of oblates.
- (rare) To offer as either a gift or an oblation.
Example Sentences
an Oblate Father
The Earth is an oblate spheroid.
Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange?
’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to oblate.’
Word Forms
- oblates
- oblati
- oblating
- oblated
Antonyms for oblate
Common opposites include prolate.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spheroidal, spheroid, ellipsoid, ellipsoids, spheroids, numerary.
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