prater

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noun

A person who prates; a chatterer.

Less commonScrabble 8

Meanings

prater1

nounprater (plural praters)

plural praters

  1. A person who prates; a chatterer.
    1 more example

    Dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places: ... a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon.

    1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]

Prater2

proper noun

Prater3

proper noun
  1. Large public park in Vienna, or (specifically) the amusement park within it.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Prater · proper noun

  1. Latinpraetor“magistrate,lawyer”
  2. Latinpratum“meadow”
  3. GermanPrater
  4. EnglishPrater

From German Prater, from either Latin pratum (“meadow”) or Latin praetor (“magistrate,lawyer”) (or both), possibly via Spanish prado or Italian prato.

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APA

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“prater.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prater. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prater,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prater.

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