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pilate is a noun meaning "the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36)". It carries one recorded sense.
the Roman procurator of Judea who ordered that Jesus be crucified (died in AD 36)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pilate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.