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| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
| spate (n.) |
| It originally meant “a flood,” a literal sense still much used in Britain, but Americans use it almost exclusively in its figurative sense of “a great many, a lot, a huge number or amount”: The current spate of books on sports figures illustrates a growing trend. | 1 |
| The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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