mates

Speech parts

1. mates - Noun

2. mates - Adjective

3. mates - Verb

4. Mates - Proper noun

Meaning

a pair of people who live together

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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. Paul McCartney

There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. Michael Hutchence

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R. Tolkien

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates. William James

Showbiz is a very strange thing, I've got a love-hate relationship with that. In Liverpool your mates say, ‘You're there, Holly, you're there' but they only see the end product, not what that entails. Holly Johnson

Therefore, broadly speaking, males invest less and seek quantity of mates, while females invest more and seek quality of mates. Matt Ridley

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