How to pronounce plate
American English pronunciation
PLAYT
- IPA
- /ˈpleɪt/
- Syllables
- PLAYT (1 syllable)
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What plate means
Most people know plate in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A full-page picture printed in a book
In a sentence: The old bird book has forty color plates showing owls and hawks.
Where it comes from: It is the same word as the dish, from an old French word for a flat piece, which goes back to a Greek word meaning broad and flat. Such pictures were printed from flat metal plates.
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