PLAYFELLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does playfellow mean? 

• PLAYFELLOW (noun)
  The noun PLAYFELLOW has 1 sense:

1. a companion at play

  Familiarity information: PLAYFELLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAYFELLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A companion at play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

playfellow; playmate

Hypernyms ("playfellow" is a kind of...):

associate; companion; comrade; familiar; fellow (a friend who is frequently in the company of another)

 Context examples 

It's the parting from her old playfellow and friend—her favourite cousin—that has done this.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You shall not die! You, my playfellow, my companion, my sister, perish on the scaffold! No! No!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her elder cousins mortified her by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, the despondence that sunk her little heart was severe.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“My motive,” returned Doctor Strong, “is to make some suitable provision for a cousin, and an old playfellow, of Annie's.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After which she gently chid her daughter Annie, for not being more demonstrative when such kindnesses were showered, for her sake, on her old playfellow; and entertained us with some particulars concerning other deserving members of her family, whom it was desirable to set on their deserving legs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)