Prater
name, noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who prates; a chatterer.
"Dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places: ... a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon."
- 2 an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 2 Large public park in Vienna, or (specifically) the amusement park within it.
Example
More examples"Dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places: ... a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon."
Etymology
From prate + -er.
From German Prater, from either Latin pratum (“meadow”) or Latin praetor (“magistrate,lawyer”) (or both), possibly via Spanish prado or Italian prato.
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