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- noun One who is the same age as another.
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Examples
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An age-mate of ours, also unaccompanied by children, explained that she was in line to get Snow White's autograph.
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An age-mate of ours, also unaccompanied by children, explained that she was in line to get Snow White's autograph.
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"Come here," said she, "Euryclea, and wash your master's age-mate; I suppose Ulysses 'hands and feet are very much the same now as his are, for trouble ages all of us dreadfully fast."
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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“Euryclea, and wash your master’s age-mate; I suppose
The Odyssey 1900
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