Agate Definition
ăgĭt
agates
noun
A fine-grained, fibrous variety of chalcedony with colored bands or irregular clouding.
American Heritage
A hard semiprecious stone, a variety of chalcedony, with striped or clouded coloring.
Webster's New World
A playing marble made of agate or a glass imitation of it; an aggie.
American Heritage
Any of various tools having agate parts, as a burnishing instrument with a tip of agate.
Webster's New World
A tool with agate parts, such as a burnisher tipped with agate.
American Heritage
adverb
(obsolete) On the way; agoing.
To be agate; to set the bells agate.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Agate
Noun
Singular:
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agatesOrigin of Agate
Middle English achate, agaten from Old French acate, agate alteration (influenced by Greek agathē good) of Latin achātēs from Greek akhātēs
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Middle French agathe, from Latin achatēs, from Ancient Greek ἀχάτης (akhatēs, “agate”).
From Wiktionary
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a- (“on”) + gate (“way”)
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