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Meaning of spate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  spate
      n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or
           extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot
           of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the
           rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
           have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
           money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great
           deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle},
           {mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile},
           {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew},
           {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
      2: a sudden forceful flow [syn: {rush}, {spate}, {surge},
         {upsurge}]
      3: the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or
         melting snow [syn: {freshet}, {spate}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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