Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fellow, mate, or companion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A companion.
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Examples
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We arrived too late on the ground to be present at the execution of Lacenaire and his co-mate in murder, Avril.
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He said, if you didn't want to break your Promise, he was going to talk to Ranec about accepting him as a co-mate.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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When he saw her, he resolved that in some way he was going to join with her, if he had to co-mate with ten men.
The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985
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Alas! prudence is seldom co-mate with youth and inexperience.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various
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The honest folk trooped off, having no more time to waste, and left the field in possession of Mr. Charles, his co-mate, and ourselves; whom I do not think he had as yet noticed.
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I have now recalled exactly what I seemed to see, and that I have seen her since -- her or her co-mate -- once or twice.
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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He did, however, find himself in the dark spaces of the wood and there, sure enough, he did also see the women with whom his Mabilla had once been co-mate.
Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892
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He is 'the co-mate and brother in exile' of Matthew Arnold and the poet of _The Unknown Eros_.
Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876
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This Lowman stream, although it be not fond of brawl and violence (in the manner of our Lynn), yet is wont to flood into a mighty head of waters when the storms of rain provoke it; and most of all when its little co-mate, called the Taunton Brook -- where
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Genius has no brother, no co-mate; the love it inspires is that of a pupil or a son.
Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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