Noun oates has 2 senses
  1. Oates, Titus Oates - English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)
    --1 is a kind of conspirator, coconspirator, plotter, machinator
  2. Oates, Joyce Carol Oates - United States writer (born in 1938)
    --2 is a kind of writer, author
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