PLAYMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does playmate mean? 

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

1. a companion at play

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAYMATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A companion at play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

playfellow; playmate

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

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

 Context examples 

I wish my favorite playmate Kitty Bryant to have the blue silk apron and my gold-bead ring with a kiss.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ah! Victor, be assured that your cousin and playmate has too sincere a love for you not to be made miserable by this supposition.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had no gentler feeling towards anyone than towards the pretty creature who had been my playmate, and whom I have always been persuaded, and shall always be persuaded, to my dying day, I then devotedly loved.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The sight of it, with its bloodstained and ghost-blasted reputation, would in itself have been enough to send a thrill through my nerves; but when the words of my uncle made me suddenly realize that this strange summons was indeed for the two men who were concerned in that old-world tragedy, and that it was the playmate of my youth who had sent it, I caught my breath as I seemed vaguely to catch a glimpse of some portentous thing forming itself in front of us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aunt Dodo was chief playmate and confidante of both children, and the trio turned the little house topsy-turvy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was said, and we retired under the pretence of seeking repose, each fancying that the other was deceived; but when at morning’s dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there—my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Elizabeth to renew her entreaties that I would write often and to bestow the last feminine attentions on her playmate and friend.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We can't be little playmates any longer, but we will be brother and sister, to love and help one another all our lives, won't we, Laurie?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)