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Tate

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //teɪt//

A surname transferred from the given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname transferred from the given name.

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  2. 2

    A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname.

  3. 3

    A female given name.

  4. 4

    The Tate, a series of art galleries.

Etymology

From Middle English *Tate, partially from Old English Tāta, from Proto-West Germanic *tait, from Proto-Germanic *taitaz (“radiant, glad, cheerful, tender”); and partially from Old Norse Táta, a personal name of unknown meaning. Doublet of Tait and Zeiss.

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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).