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playmates

/ˈpleɪˌmeɪts/

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What does playmates mean?

noun

  1. plural of playmate
  2. plural of Playmate.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈpleɪˌmeɪts/

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Anxious thought was daily spent that his play and playmates might be equally pleasing and free from danger.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994
Perhaps none of my early playmates are more vividly remembered than is this little maiden.
Charles A. EastmanIndian BoyhoodProject Gutenberg ebook #337
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With playmates for my teachers, fences and pavements for my copy books, and chalk for my pen and ink, I learned the art of writing.
Frederick DouglassMy Bondage and My FreedomProject Gutenberg ebook #202
And so it drifted to the next summer, and the next,—till playmates scattered, and mother grew gray, and sister went up to the Judge’s kitchen to work.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
Their schoolmates and playmates are apt to be down there in the front rows with their families, and maybe all the old scores have not yet been settled.
Ralph Albert ParletteThe University of Hard KnocksProject Gutenberg ebook #455