diplomate

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English

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Noun

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diplomate (plural diplomates)

  1. A professional who has earned a diploma.
    • 1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Napoleon III in Italy”, in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, [], →OCLC, stanza XV, page 16:
      You think he could barter and cheat / As vulgar diplomates use, / With the people's heart in his breast?

Verb

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diplomate (third-person singular simple present diplomates, present participle diplomating, simple past and past participle diplomated)

  1. (transitive) To award a diploma to.

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French

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Etymology

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Back-formation from diplomatique.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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diplomate m or f by sense (plural diplomates)

  1. diplomat
  2. pastry made from leftover pastries, crushed biscuits

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Italian

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Adjective

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diplomate

  1. feminine plural of diplomato

Noun

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diplomate f

  1. plural of diplomata

Latin

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Noun

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dīplōmate

  1. ablative singular of dīplōma

Norman

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French diplomate.

Noun

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diplomate m or f (plural diplomates)

  1. (Jersey) diplomat

Spanish

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Verb

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diplomate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of diplomar combined with te