Definitions

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  • noun The person with whom one is mated in love; a lover or sweetheart.

Etymologies

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From love +‎ mate.

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Examples

  • a red heart on it, pierced by a dagger that was dropping red drops very sentimentally; and it said would she not hasten to take her vast beauty out in the moonlight, to walk with Herman under the quiet trees while the nightingale warbled and the snee, or sidehill mooney, called to its lovemate?

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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