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lifemates

lifemates is the plural of lifemate.

Meaning of lifemate

Noun

lifemate (plural lifemates)

  1. A companion for life.
    • The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introduction”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

Questions about lifemates

What is lifemates the plural of?
Lifemates is the plural of lifemate.

Words near lifemates in the dictionary

  1. lifelore
  2. lifely
  3. lifeman
  4. lifemanship
  5. lifemate
  6. lifemates
  7. lifen
  8. lifened
  9. lifeness
  10. lifening
  11. lifens

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