Usually means: Official envoy of the Pope.
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  1. legate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. legate: Merriam-Webster
  3. legate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. legate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. legate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. legate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Legate, legate: Wordnik
  8. Legate, legate: Wiktionary
  9. legate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. legate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. legate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Legate, legate: Dictionary.com
  13. legate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Legate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Legate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. legate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. legate: Rhymezone
  18. Legate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. legate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. legate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. legate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. legate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. LEGATE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. legate: Legal dictionary

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  1. legate: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Legate: Catholic Encyclopedia

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  1. Legate: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A deputy representing the pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
noun:  An ambassador or messenger.
noun:  The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.
verb:  (transitive) To leave as a legacy.
noun:  A surname.

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