Clues for the word "OBLATE"
We've had 31 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 53 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on July 08, 2024.
Definition of oblate
- a. - Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblate spheroid.
- a. - Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated; -- used chiefly or only in the titles of Roman Catholic orders. See Oblate, n.
- a. - One of an association of priests or religious women who have offered themselves to the service of the church. There are three such associations of priests, and one of women, called oblates.
- a. - One of the Oblati.
Referring Clues
- Flattened at the poles
- Layperson in a monastery
- Not quite spherical
- Squeezed at the ends, as leaves
- Monastery resident
- Squished at the poles
- Like M&M's
- Tangerine-shaped
- Layperson dedicated to religious life
- Flattened at the ends
- Religious layperson
- Depressed at the poles
- Man in a monestary
- Pumpkin shaped
- Monastic auxiliary
- Shaped like Skittles
- Flat at the poles
- Shaped like Saturn
- Like Earth
- Shaped like the earth, but able to change
- Offered up, having died repeatedly
- Earth-shaped
- Monastic, or of this world?
- A lay member of a monastic order - or a quality of a flattened sphere
- Top-flattened (sphere)
- Religious devotee died but not in time
- Not perfectly round
- Flattened
- Shaped like a clementine
- Almost spherical in shape
- Flattened at the poles, as Earth
Last Seen In
- LA Times - July 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 05, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 07, 2024
- LA Times - December 04, 2023
- New York Times - October 22, 2023
- Daily American - July 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 12, 2023
- LA Times - January 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 30, 2022
- New York Times - December 30, 2017
- Guardian Weekend - October 28, 2017
- Daily American - July 19, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 11, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - January 29, 2017
- New York Times - September 04, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 01, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - January 18, 2016
- New York Times - January 16, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 13, 2015
- USA Today - September 01, 2015
- King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - July 26, 2015
- New York Times - July 25, 2015
- Universal - June 12, 2015
- USA Today - May 16, 2014
- Canadiana - October 14, 2013
- New York Times - February 03, 2013
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 14, 2011
- Thinks Daily - February 21, 2011
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