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Definition of Spate
1. Noun. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. "A wad of money"
Generic synonyms: Large Indefinite Amount, Large Indefinite Quantity
Specialized synonyms: Deluge, Flood, Inundation, Torrent, Haymow
Derivative terms: Heap, Heap, Pile, Plenteous, Wad
2. Noun. A sudden forceful flow.
Generic synonyms: Flow, Flowing
Specialized synonyms: Debris Storm, Debris Surge, Onrush
Derivative terms: Surge, Surge
3. Noun. The occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow.
Definition of Spate
1. n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
Definition of Spate
1. Noun. A river flood; an overflow or inundation. ¹
2. Noun. A sudden rush or increase. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spate
1. a freshet [n -S] - See also: freshet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spate
Literary usage of Spate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides: An Autobiography by John Gibson Paton (1898)
"... all my earthly belongings had to be secured in the one still-standing room.
Following upon this came another spate of thirst for our blood, ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"I'll question you We find it also in serious and heroic language : He [Godfrey]
call'd the worthies then, and spate them so ..."
3. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1886)
"... entire— there are passages and touches here and there that might have come
from the hands of Burns. "The Muckle spate " is the longest of these tales. ..."
4. Politics of Compromise: NATO and AWACS by Arnold L. Tessmer (1995)
"... A spate of New Proposals When the United Kingdom dropped out of the
program—notwithstanding its pledge of Nimrod as an in-kind payment and other ..."
5. More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882 by Victoria (1884)
"THE "spate," 1872. Tuesday, June 11, 1872. Brown came in soon after four o'clock,
saying he had been down at the waterside, for a child had fallen into the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"All the columns, capitals, &c., are of porphyry or marble. The floors and all
other flat spate* are covered with marble slabs of the ..."
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