mate
the officer below the master on a commercial ship
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,396 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,161 times across 155,168 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship also: first mate
- a fellow member of a team also: teammate it was his first start against his former teammates
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) he loved the mare and all her matescamels hate leaving their mates
- a person's partner in marriage also: spouse, partner, married person, better half
- an exact duplicate also: match when a match is found an entry is made in the notebook
- one of a pair also: fellow he lost the mate to his shoeone eye was blue but its fellow was brown
mate in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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These must mate, And fuse with Jacob’s mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel—Art.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Take the strangers up the hillside, mate, so that they may get a sight of the birds.
The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story · George Moore · Chapter 1
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Captain Gibson commanded one of these ships, and Avery appears to have been his mate, in the year 1715.
The pirates own book · Charles Ellms · Chapter 1
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Even before the shuffle of naked soles had ceased along the decks, the mate began to call over the names.
The nigger of the "Narcissus" · Joseph Conrad · Chapter 1
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When the lad had left, Captain Martin called in Ned and William Peters, his first mate, and laid the case before them.
By Pike and Dyke · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1