oates

Noun oates has 2 senses

• oates(n = noun.person) titus oates - English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705);
is a kind of coconspirator, conspirator, machinator, plotter

• oates(n = noun.person) joyce carol oates - United States writer (born in 1938);
is a kind of author, writer