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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
uniate is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of the Uniat Church". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of the Uniat Church
of or relating to former Eastern Christian or Orthodox churches that have been received under the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome but retain their own rituals and practices and canon law
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 uniate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.