Definitions for MatE

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MatE mate

Spelling: [meyt]

IPA: /meɪt/

Mate is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in MatE (aemt).

Definitions for MatE

noun

1. a partner in marriage; spouse.
2. one member of a pair of mated animals.
3. one of a pair:
4. a counterpart.
5. an associate; fellow worker; comrade; partner (often used in combination):
6. friend; buddy; pal (often used as an informal term of address):
7. Nautical. first mate. any of a number of officers of varying degrees of rank subordinate to the master of a merchant ship. an assistant to a warrant officer or other functionary on a ship.
8. an aide or helper, as to an artisan; factotum.
9. a gear, rack, or worm engaging with another gear or worm.
10. Archaic. an equal in reputation; peer; match.
11. maté.
12. a tealike South American beverage made from the dried leaves of an evergreen tree.
13. a South American tree, Ilex paraguariensis, that is the source of this beverage.
14. the dried leaves of this tree.

verb (used with object)

1. to join as a mate or as mates.
2. to bring (animals) together for breeding purposes.
3. to match or marry.
4. to join, fit, or associate suitably:
5. to connect or link:
6. to treat as comparable.

verb (used without object)

1. to associate as a mate or as mates.
2. (of animals) to copulate.
3. (of animals) to pair for the purpose of breeding.
4. to marry.
5. (of a gear, rack, or worm) to engage with another gear or worm; mesh.
6. Archaic. to consort; keep company.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. checkmate (defs 1, 3, 5).

Origin of MatE

1350-1400; Middle English Middle Low German; replacing Middle English mette, Old English gemetta messmate, guest. See meat

Examples for MatE

And then I said, ‘Well, chief, when the admiral comes aboard, the first mate has to pipe him in.’

No one was up on board of her, and I was obliged to give the mate a call, myself.

Read the profile of a 36-year-old man, and he'll say he's looking for a mate between, oh, 26 and 42.

About four, I saw the land myself and pointed it out to the mate.

But no worries, mate, you will make it all up by selling T-shirts at your gigs.

Mating with a cousin or brother is safer than risking life and limb to mate with an outsider.

From his dress, and the commands he appeared to be issuing, Robert judged that it was the mate.

The mate with one of the crew came ashore in the boat for help and a doctor.

“Benedict Cumberbatch is a mate of mine, and we did a charity show at the Old Vic together,” said Redmayne.

The mate had done what he could to prejudice the captain against the boy he hated.