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Definition of Mates
1. Noun. A pair of people who live together. "A married couple from Chicago"
Generic synonyms: Family, Family Unit
Specialized synonyms: Power Couple, Dink
Derivative terms: Couple, Match, Match
Definition of Mates
1. Noun. (plural of mate) ¹
2. Adjective. Friendly; having a friendship (with). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mates
1. mate [v] - See also: mate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mates
Literary usage of Mates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1796)
"... and the carpenter ; all of whom, except the chaplain, have their mates or ...
rate has fix lieutenants, fix matter's mates, twenty-four ..."
2. The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps: With a by Lewis Randolph Hamersly (1870)
"Acting Master's mates, William Hatch, George W. Wood, and James McDonald. ...
Acting Master Commanding, John Collins. Acting Master's mates ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"348 CHEER UP, MY mates (Sitting and drinking in the chair made out of the relics of
... CHEER up, my mates, the wind does fairly blow; Clap on more sail, ..."
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