Playmate
//ˈpleɪˌmeɪt// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
"An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’."
- 2 A woman who has appeared as the centerfold in Playboy magazine.
- 3 a companion at play wordnet
- 4 A person's lover. euphemistic
Example
More examples"It is not safe, I hear, to play tricks with kings: just as lions sometimes come quietly to someone that rubs them, they are still lions when they choose, and then their playmate will lie dead."
Etymology
From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.
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