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coinmate

coinmate noun: a fellow inmate.

Noun

coinmate (plural coinmates)

  1. A fellow inmate.
    • Similarly, the person who had recognized him as coinmate from the concentration camp had herself never left Great Britain during the war.2013, Michael Linden, Krzysztof Rutkowski, Hurting Memories and Beneficial Forgetting, page 106

Forms of coinmate

pluralcoinmates

Origin of coinmate

From co- + inmate.

Questions about coinmate

What does coinmate mean?
Coinmate means a fellow inmate.
What part of speech is coinmate?
Coinmate is a noun.
What is the plural of coinmate?
The plural of coinmate is coinmates.

Words near coinmate in the dictionary

  1. coinlessness
  2. coinlike
  3. coinmaker
  4. coinmakers
  5. coinmaking
  6. coinmate
  7. coinmates
  8. coinoculate
  9. coinoculated
  10. coinoculation
  11. coinoculations

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