Meaning

2 senses
  1. A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.

    Spielgefährte, Spielkamerad

    това́рищ по играмtovárišč po igram

    a companion at play

  2. (euphemistic)A person's lover.

Examples

5 sentences
  1. The boy doesn't have very many playmates.

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  2. He wants a playmate.

    deEr will einen Spielgefährten.

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  3. I have no playmates.

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  4. He was thinking of these three young men, his oldest playmates, with whom he had once played cops and robbers.

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  5. "But I have no playmates." "You will find some in this neighbourhood, and from your schoolfellows as well."

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
companion to play with:
Deutsch
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companion to play with:

Origin

From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.

From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.

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Forms

plural: playmates
Singularplaymate
Pluralplaymates

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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