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mates
/meɪts/
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What does mates mean?
noun
- plural of mate
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of mate
adjective
- Friendly; having a friendship (with).
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proper noun
- A surname from Hungarian or Catalan.
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His strength left him, and the last his mates saw of him he lay gasping in the snow and yearning toward them.
The simple truth of history mates it a necessity, unpleasant though it be, to chronicle two typical examples in the United States.
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The flowers developed the perfumes which entice their visitors, and the male Lepidoptera developed the perfumes which entice and excite their mates.
The cook came up the side like a monkey for cleverness, and as soon as he saw what was doing, “So ho, mates!”
On the other hand, starlings, as we have seen, may be consoled thrice in the same day for the loss of their mates.