Word.ws English Dictionary

old mates

old mates is the plural of old mate.

Meaning of old mate

Noun

old mate (plural old mates)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) An elderly man.
    • We were sitting at the bar when old mate came and asked us for a cigarette.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, colloquial) In general, any person, whose specific identity can be deduced from context.
    • Old mate dropped by and we watched the cricket for a bit.

Questions about old mates

What is old mates the plural of?
Old mates is the plural of old mate.

Words near old mates in the dictionary

  1. Old Marlburians
  2. Old Marston
  3. old master
  4. old masters
  5. old mate
  6. old mates
  7. old media
  8. old men
  9. old men yell at cloud
  10. old men yell at clouds
  11. old men yelling at a cloud

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: old mates (page history and authors); old 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “old mates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/old_mates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.