Usually means: Sudden flood; large, overwhelming quantity.
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  1. spate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spate, spate: Wordnik
  7. spate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spate: Wiktionary
  9. spate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spate: Dictionary.com
  13. spate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spate: Rhymezone
  19. Spate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spate: Free Dictionary
  21. spate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. spate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. spate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. spate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spate: Legal dictionary

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  1. spate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPATE: Acronym Finder
  2. spate: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spate: The Folk File
  2. spate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (countable) A (sudden) flood or inundation of water; specifically, a flood in or overflow of a river or other watercourse due to heavy rain or melting snow; (uncountable, archaic) flooding, inundation.
▸ noun:  (countable) A sudden heavy downpour of rain.
▸ noun:  (countable, figurative) A sudden increase or rush of something; a flood, an outburst, an outpouring.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To (suddenly) flood or inundate (a river or other watercourse) with water.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To (suddenly) rain heavily; to pour.

Similar:
surge, freshet, upsurge, heap, slew, pile, peck, stack, muckle, mess, more...

Opposite:
drought, dearth, scarcity, shortage

Types:
flood, deluge, torrent, inundation, outpouring, overflow, more...

Phrases:
in spate, in full spate, Oskar Spate, spate of, a spate of, more...

Adjectives:
recent, full, new, current, sudden, whole, fresh, usual, brief, further, initial


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Similar:
surge, freshet, upsurge, heap, slew, pile, peck, stack, muckle, mess, more...

Opposite:
drought, dearth, scarcity, shortage

Types:
flood, deluge, torrent, inundation, outpouring, overflow, more...

Phrases:
in spate, in full spate, Oskar Spate, spate of, a spate of, more...

Adjectives:
recent, full, new, current, sudden, whole, fresh, usual, brief, further, initial



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