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Definition of prate in English: prateverb preɪtpreɪt [no object]Talk foolishly or at tedious length about something. 瞎扯，唠叨；空谈 I heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half 我坐在座位上听他瞎扯了至少一个半小时。 Example sentencesExamples - As late as December, 1997 he was prating to MPs about the need for water in Scotland ‘to remain unambiguously in public ownership and to be clearly democratically accountable’.
- It's even worse for them to prate about privacy when it's clearly just a PR move.
- How we dare even prate about democracy is beyond me.
- So, I'm not going to stop prating on and on about my favorite sport, but I won't do it nearly as much.
- Our culture is riven with ambiguity; we prate of our history but erase anything inconvenient from our collective hard-drive.
Synonyms speak, give voice, chat chatter, chatting, chattering, gossiping, prattling, prating, gibbering, jabbering, babbling, gabbling, rattling on, speaking, talking
Derivativesnoun ˈpreɪtəˈpreɪdər rare A person who talks foolishly or at tedious length. 瞎扯，唠叨；空谈 the soldier is neither forward, nor a prater Example sentencesExamples - Your mother most certainly did not want you in contact with that prissy prater!
- But if the bawler - I made a slip, I meant to say prater - as they so often do, begins some old wives' tale, everybody awakens, straightens up, and gapes for it.
OriginLate Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German praten, probably of imitative origin. Rhymesabate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, short weight, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight Definition of prate in US English: prateverbpreɪtprāt [no object]Talk foolishly or at tedious length about something. 瞎扯，唠叨；空谈 I heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half 我坐在座位上听他瞎扯了至少一个半小时。 Example sentencesExamples - How we dare even prate about democracy is beyond me.
- As late as December, 1997 he was prating to MPs about the need for water in Scotland ‘to remain unambiguously in public ownership and to be clearly democratically accountable’.
- It's even worse for them to prate about privacy when it's clearly just a PR move.
- So, I'm not going to stop prating on and on about my favorite sport, but I won't do it nearly as much.
- Our culture is riven with ambiguity; we prate of our history but erase anything inconvenient from our collective hard-drive.
Synonyms speak, give voice, chat chatter, chatting, chattering, gossiping, prattling, prating, gibbering, jabbering, babbling, gabbling, rattling on, speaking, talking
OriginLate Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German praten, probably of imitative origin. |