Definitions for messmate

messmate mess·mate

Spelling: [mes-meyt]
IPA: /ˈmɛsˌmeɪt/

Messmate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in messmate (aeemmsst).

Definitions for messmate

noun

  1. a person, especially a friend, who is a member of a group regularly taking meals together, as in an army camp.

Origin of messmate

First recorded in 1720-30; mess + mate1

Examples for messmate

Did you not say it was an unpublished song written by a messmate of yours?

My eye, Buck, messmate, fancy what it would be if he had nine tails!

Jack did not grudge his messmate the honour, though he liked to be first when he could.

As he did so he saw by the uniform that it was his own messmate Voules.

messmate o' mine on the Bedford, and afore that on the Vesuvius bomb.

"An old college chum and messmate of mine," Berrington said.

Terence listened, and responded in the same tone to his messmate.

I was only wondering, sir, whether him or she had a messmate down in the hole.

We mix them nicely up here, and throw in a thief for a messmate.

About noon we passed by "Chantilly," the home of my messmate, Wash.

Word Value for messmate
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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