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playmate

/ˈpleɪˌmeɪt/

playmate noun: a companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.

Noun (1)

playmate (plural playmates)

  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’.1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    playfellow
  2. (euphemistic) A person's lover.

Noun (2) capitalized: Playmate

Playmate (plural Playmates)

  1. A woman who has appeared as the centerfold in Playboy magazine.

playmate meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

playmate in Marathi

companion to play with
खेळगडी kheḷagḍī

playmate in Urdu

ہم جولی, ہم نشین

playmate in Malayalam

കളിക്കൂട്ടകാരൻ, കാമുകൻ, കാമുകി, കളിത്തോഴൻ

playmate in Kannada

ಒಡನಾಡಿ, ಆಟದ ಸಂಗಾತಿ, ಜೊತೆಗಾರ
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playmate in Tagalog
kalaro

Examples of playmate in a sentence

  • His sister, his dearest and only playmate, is a tomboy at heart.
  • Worse, they are often not too sure what their absent playmates want them to be feeling.
  • I remembered snowfights with playmates, the days filled with simple pleasures of youth.

All 10 example sentences with playmate

Synonyms of playmate

Forms of playmate

pluralplaymates
pluralPlaymates

Plural of playmate: playmates

Origin of playmate

From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.

Words formed from playmate

Questions about playmate

What does playmate mean?
Playmate means a companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
What is playmate in Marathi?
Playmate in Marathi is खेळगडी (kheḷagḍī). See Playmate meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is playmate?
Playmate is a noun.
How do you pronounce playmate?
Playmate is pronounced /ˈpleɪˌmeɪt/.
What is the plural of playmate?
The plural of playmate is playmates.

Words near playmate in the dictionary

  1. playmaking
  2. Playmander
  3. Playmaster
  4. Playmasters
  5. playmat
  6. playmate
  7. playmates
  8. playmateship
  9. playmateships
  10. playmats
  11. playmobile

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: playmate (page history and authors); Playmate (page history and authors); playmate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); playmate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); playmate (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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