spate

Definition of Spate in English :

Noun

1. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

(often followed by of') a large number or amount or extent

Example Sentences:
'a batch of letters'
'a deal of trouble'
'a lot of money'
'he made a mint on the stock market'
'see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos'
'it must have cost plenty'
'a slew of journalists'
'a wad of money'

2. rush, spate, surge, upsurge

a sudden forceful flow

3. freshet, spate

the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow

freshet

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spate

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noun

1.

a fast flow, rush, or outpouring

a spate of words

2. mainly British

a sudden flood

the rivers were in spate

3. mainly British

a sudden heavy downpour

Spate

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noun

1. Chiefly British

a.

a flash flood

b.

a sudden, heavy rain

2.

an unusually large outpouring, as of words

Spate

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n.

1. A sudden flood, rush, or outpouring: "It issues a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians" (Virginia Woolf).

2. Chiefly British

a. A flash flood.

b. A freshet resulting from a downpour of rain or melting of snow.

c. A sudden heavy fall of rain.

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