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Nate

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //neɪt//

A diminutive of the male given names Nathan, Nathanael and Nathaniel, and also a female given name Natalie.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given names Nathan, Nathanael and Nathaniel, and also a female given name Natalie.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Etymology

A variant of Neat.

Forms

plural
Nates
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).