orientate

1. 1.

   determine one's position with reference to another point

   “We had to orient ourselves in the forest”

   Synonymsorient

   Broaderdecide

   Narrowerguidereorientate

Other forms of orientate

past tense

orientated·

present participle

orientating·

third person

orientates·

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 orientate

What does orientate mean?

orientate means "determine one's position with reference to another point".

How many syllables are in orientate?

orientate has 3 syllables: o-rien-tate. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for orientate?

Close synonyms include orient. 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 orientate a common word?

orientate 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.