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-ade
1- a suffix found in nouns denoting action or process or a person or persons acting, appearing in loanwords from French and sometimes from Spanish ( cannonade; fusillade; renegade ), but also attached to native stems: blockade; escapade; masquerade .
- a noun suffix indicating a drink made of a particular fruit, normally a citrus: lemonade .
-ade
2- a collective suffix like -ad 1: decade .
Ade
3[ eyd ]
noun
- George, 1866–1944, U.S. humorist.
-ade
suffix forming nouns
- a sweetened drink made of various fruits
lemonade
limeade
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Word History and Origins
Origin of -ade1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of -ade1
from French, from Latin -āta made of, feminine past participle of verbs ending in -āre
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Example Sentences
George Ade, the "funny man," is independent financially from the royalties paid him on his copyrights.
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I do nod know any nah-ice gondolier—zey are oal—I dell you, if you lif viz zem ade mons as me, you cot your troat—yes!
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The captions of the George Ade fables are uniformly good, and there are other notable exceptions.
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As Lem stepped out into the other room, the caller-out was shouting, "Promen-ade all—you know where!"
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It is sometimes called Ade-gygdal-mgy-i, the time "when the leaves are red."
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