foliate

1. 1.

   ornamented with foliage or foils

   “foliate tracery”

   “a foliated capital”

   Synonymsfoliated

   architecture

2. 2.

   (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves

   “`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'”

   Similarleafy

   botany

3. 3.

   (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

   Synonymsfoliatedfoliaceous

   Similarstratified

Other forms of foliate

past tense

foliated·

present participle

foliating·

third person

foliates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foliate

What does foliate mean?

foliate means "hammer into thin flat foils". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foliate?

foliate has 3 syllables: fo-li-ate. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfoʊliˌeɪt/.

What is another word for foliate?

Close synonyms include paginate, page, foliated, foliated, foliaceous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foliate a common word?

foliate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with foliate?

95 words rhyme with foliate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.