oblate

About 0.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
2. noun A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
3. adjective Designating a person who is an oblate, of or belonging to an order of oblates.

   an Oblate Father

4. adjective Flattened or depressed at the poles.

   The Earth is an oblate spheroid.

5. verb To offer as either a gift or an oblation.

Similar words

pumpkin-shaped spheroidal spheroid ellipsoid ellipsoids spheroids numerary ecclesiolater cenobite latin

Often followed by

spheroid sisters fathers spheroids ellipsoid spheroidal and shape or

Word family

oblateness oblatenesses oblates