Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of badgers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whale.
- noun A company; a number together: said of badgers. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 80.
- An order of monodelphian Mammalia, superorder Educabilia, containing the true cetaceans, as whales, dolphins, etc.
- In some systems of zoölogical classification, a suborder of Cetomorpha. Also
Ceta .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Cetacea, or collectively, the Cetacea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare A
cetacean - noun obsolete A company of
badgers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Creavitque Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem atque motabilem, quam produxerant aquæ in species suas, et omne volatile secundum genus suum.
Archive 2008-07-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Creavitque Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem atque motabilem, quam produxerant aquæ in species suas, et omne volatile secundum genus suum.
Snakes in the water and other discoveries Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Chose que je deteste d'ailleurs mais sans savoir pourquoi cete fois je me suis posté devant mon ordi et j'ai repondu le plus serieusement du monde aux questions qui defilaient ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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(And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature which hath a living soul.) “Creavit Deus cete grandia, et omnem animam viventem, atque motabilem quam produxerant aquæ.”
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There are some lovely examples of peculiar collective nouns in the English language, like an exultation of larks, a pride of lions, a cete of badgers and a convocation of eagles.
A Cacophony of Candidates In Town Tomorrow Ron Buckmire 2007
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There are some lovely examples of peculiar collective nouns in the English language, like an exultation of larks, a pride of lions, a cete of badgers and a convocation of eagles.
Archive 2007-08-01 Ron Buckmire 2007
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Some examples: A shrewdness of apes, cete of badgers, army of caterpillars, knot of toads, unkindness of ravens, or a clowder of cats. link
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The word commonly rendered whales (cetos vel cete) might in my judgment be not improperly translated thynnus or tunny fish, as corresponding with the Hebrew word thaninim.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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_ Show him into the Parlour -- _Senior tome vind sueipora; cete
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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Marcell.v. Cetarii -- "cete in mari majora sunt piscium genera."
The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840
skipvia commented on the word cete
A group of badgers
November 16, 2007
yarb commented on the word cete
Related to set in some way? Or if not, to what? Whales?
November 16, 2007
whichbe commented on the word cete
I hate getting badgered, a group of them would be even worse.
September 6, 2008