vate
French, noun/vat/
vate is a French masculine noun meaning “vates, especially a Gaulish priest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Prêtre gaulois”.
What does vate mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinevates, especially a Gaulish priest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Prêtre gaulois.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vate
- vates plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vate?
- /vat/
- \vat\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to vate
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is vate in French?
vate appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).