aureate.

1. Golden or decorated with gold.

2. Elaborately ornamented or elevated in diction.

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Words that belong together

• aureate border

On the page

An aureate border framed the page.

The aureate dome shone above the roofs.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more aureate; superlative most aureate where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.