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Definition of aureate in English: aureateadjective ˈɔːrɪət 1Made of or having the colour of gold. Example sentencesExamples - There was aureate light coming from above, lighting the sea up in a diffuse golden haze, throwing golden flecks into his eyes.
- A young groom, eagerly attired, stands before a doorway, which in turn looks out onto a landscape of sun-scarred desert, aureate sands stretching to a blinding, azure sky.
- A gentler, less aureate Archangel, though still cloud-borne, points at the Holy Ghost descending as a dove.
- She looked across the ocean to the horizon, the aureate sun in the first stage of setting.
- An enormous crystal chandelier hung in the center of the foyer, and paintings that looked as if they had been painted by Renaissance masters hung in aureate frames on the walls.
- Selina began her school day the same way she always had, waking up before the aureate dawn revealed itself to watch the most fantastic thing she'd ever seen: the sun rise.
Synonyms pompous, bombastic, magniloquent, pretentious, ostentatious, high-flown, high-sounding, rhetorical, orotund, fustian, florid, flowery - 1.1 (of language) highly ornamented or elaborate.
the aureate diction frequently conceals the tritest sentiments Example sentencesExamples - The poetic line in ‘The Harvest Bow’ was longer, more aureate in its fashioning, more iambic than in his previous two collections.
Synonyms ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin aureatus, from Latin aureus 'golden', from aurum 'gold'. Definition of aureate in US English: aureateadjective 1Denoting, made of, or having the color of gold. Example sentencesExamples - She looked across the ocean to the horizon, the aureate sun in the first stage of setting.
- A gentler, less aureate Archangel, though still cloud-borne, points at the Holy Ghost descending as a dove.
- A young groom, eagerly attired, stands before a doorway, which in turn looks out onto a landscape of sun-scarred desert, aureate sands stretching to a blinding, azure sky.
- Selina began her school day the same way she always had, waking up before the aureate dawn revealed itself to watch the most fantastic thing she'd ever seen: the sun rise.
- An enormous crystal chandelier hung in the center of the foyer, and paintings that looked as if they had been painted by Renaissance masters hung in aureate frames on the walls.
- There was aureate light coming from above, lighting the sea up in a diffuse golden haze, throwing golden flecks into his eyes.
Synonyms pompous, bombastic, magniloquent, pretentious, ostentatious, high-flown, high-sounding, rhetorical, orotund, fustian, florid, flowery - 1.1 (of language) highly ornamented or elaborate.
the aureate diction frequently conceals the tritest sentiments Example sentencesExamples - The poetic line in ‘The Harvest Bow’ was longer, more aureate in its fashioning, more iambic than in his previous two collections.
Synonyms ornate, fancy, very elaborate, curlicued, over-elaborate, extravagant, baroque, fussy, busy, ostentatious, showy, wedding-cake, gingerbread
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin aureatus, from Latin aureus ‘golden’, from aurum ‘gold’. |