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Frater vs Prater - What's the difference?

frater | prater |

As nouns the difference between frater and prater

is that frater is a monk while prater is a person who prates; a chatterer.

frater

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A monk.
  • A frater house.
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    prater

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who prates; a chatterer.
  • * (rfdate), Shakespeare, Henry V , act 5, scene 2:
    • Dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other places: ... a speaker is but a prater ; a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon.

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