RATEABLE

ratable, rateable

(adjective) liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes; “the ratable value of property”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

rateable (comparative more rateable, superlative most rateable)

liable to incur the payment of rates

Anagrams

• talebear, tearable

Source: Wiktionary


Rate"a*ble, a.

Definition: See Ratable.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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