ovate

Meanings

1. Shaped like an egg.
2. With the broadest extremity near the base.

1. An egg-shaped hand axe.

1. An Irish bard.
2. A member at a certain grade of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, a neo-druidism order based in England.
3. A modern-day bard of a gorsedd, especially one acknowledged at an eisteddfod.

1. To give someone an ovation.
2. To applaud enthusiastically.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ōvātus, from ōvum (“an egg”) + -ātus; see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).