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

  • We arrived too late on the ground to be present at the execution of Lacenaire and his co-mate in murder, Avril.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • Alas! prudence is seldom co-mate with youth and inexperience.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various

  • 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.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • 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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