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-mates

-mates is the plural of -mate.

Meaning of -mate

Suffix

-mate (noun-forming suffix, plural -mates)

  1. Used to form nouns having the sense of "a comrade or fellow with whom what is denoted by the noun is shared".
    • classmate, schoolmate

Questions about -mates

What is -mates the plural of?
-mates is the plural of -mate.

Words near -mates in the dictionary

  1. -mar-
  2. -mas
  3. -mastia
  4. -mastix
  5. -mate
  6. -mates
  7. -max
  8. -maxx
  9. -maxxed
  10. -maxxes
  11. -maxxing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -mates (page history and authors); -mate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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