Dictionary Entry
oblate
oblate is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses
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- 1adjective
Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
- 2adjective
Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate.
- 3adjective
One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
- 4adjective
One of the Oblati.
- 5noun
a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life
- 6adjective
having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
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