Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing outward.
- adjective Related on the mother's side.
- noun A relative on one's mother's side.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A relative on the mother's side.
- Growing out.
- Related through the mother; maternally cognate; as a noun, one so related.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
relative whose relation is traced only throughfemale members of thefamily . - noun Any
maternal female relative. - adjective Related to someone by female connections.
- adjective Related on the maternal side of the family.
- adjective linguistics Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
- adjective Growing out.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective related on the mother's side
- noun one related on the mother's side
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I don't think LBJ was ever a powerful voice in the "enate" either, but I could be mistaken.
Hillary Pollster Mark Penn: Bill Did Fundamentally Change The Country 2009
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She was never a powerful force in the enate, and the Republicans will have NOTHING to gain by working with her, if she becomes president.
Hillary Pollster Mark Penn: Bill Did Fundamentally Change The Country 2009
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DaddyD: "She was never a powerful force in the enate ..."
Hillary Pollster Mark Penn: Bill Did Fundamentally Change The Country 2009
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I am also suspicious of a man that had noted taken any side of fence 109 times while in enate.
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S enate majority leader Bill Frist appeared through a telecast as a speaker at "Justice Sunday," at the invitation of the event's main sponsor, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins.
THE NEWS BLOG 2005
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Virgil stared deep into the grease spots on the garage floor, as if by reading their patterns and by some mystic mode of divination, petrolmancy perhaps, he would arrive at a price that would not ali-enate the dark young man but would still assure him an exorbitant hourly rate for his labor.
Practical Demonkeeping Moore, Christopher, 1957- 1992
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S enate President, David Mark, has urged the government of the United States of America to review the classification of Nigeria among countries to watch for terrorism and take steps to delist her.
Thisday Online 2010
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He loved to dine at the home of my enate Grandmother who was also from Knock in County Mayo, where our Blessed Mother, St. Joseph, and St. John appeared.
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Obama submits Russia nuclear arms control treaty to enate for consideration more images more images more images more images Obama submits Russia nuclear treaty to Senate
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S enate President, David Mark, has urged the government of the United States of America to review the classification of Nigeria among countries to watch for terrorism and take steps to delist her.
Thisday Online 2010
mr_write commented on the word enate
enate Related on the mother's side.
December 8, 2007
bilby commented on the word enate
We don't appear to have a Wordie list for these kind of words, ie. about how people are related. Lampbane's It's All Relative is neat and effective but doesn't seem to have a place for adjectives such as this.
November 4, 2008
sionnach commented on the word enate
I started a family list a while back, but it kind of petered out. I think my idea had been to include the various relatives covered in the stirps romana. But real life must have intervened:
all in the family
November 4, 2008
slumry commented on the word enate
A fine Mothers' day word!
May 10, 2015
qms commented on the word enate
When a boy attains a man's estate
He blends the learned and the innate,
He may hew to the plan
Of the agnate clan
Imbued with spirit of the tribe enate.
May 10, 2015