MATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mated mean? 

• MATED (adjective)
  The adjective MATED has 3 senses:

1. mated sexually

2. occurring in pairs or as a pair

3. of or relating to a marriage partner

  Familiarity information: MATED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mated sexually

Similar:

paired (mated sexually)

Also:

married (joined in matrimony)

matched (going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities)

Antonym:

unmated (not mated sexually)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Occurring in pairs or as a pair

Synonyms:

mated; paired

Context example:

paired gloves

Similar:

matched (going well together; possessing harmonizing qualities)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to a marriage partner

Similar:

married (joined in matrimony)

 Context examples 

As friends you are very happy, and your frequent quarrels soon blow over, but I fear you would both rebel if you were mated for life.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here, too, when they came, they found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the desert. Fools, fools!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)