spate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spate n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "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" Synonym(s): 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 a sudden forceful flow Synonym(s): rush, spate, surge, upsurge the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow Synonym(s): freshet, spate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spate \Spate\, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. speid.] A river flood; an overflow or inundation. --Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. --Tennyson.