Scrabble and Words with Friends

• MATE is a valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• MATE is a valid Words with Friends word worth 7 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• MATE is a 4 letter word containing the letters a, e, m, t.

Definitions

• mate

  noun the officer below the master on a commercial ship

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• mate

  noun a fellow member of a team
  it was his first start against his former teammates

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• mate

  noun the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
  he loved the mare and all her mates
  camels hate leaving their mates

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• mate

  noun a person's partner in marriage

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• mate

  noun an exact duplicate

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• mate

  noun one of a pair
  he lost the mate to his shoe

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• mate

  noun South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea

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• mate

  noun informal term for a friend of the same sex

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• mate

  noun South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate

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• mate

  noun a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king

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• mate

  verb engage in sexual intercourse
  Birds mate in the Spring

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• mate

  verb bring two objects, ideas, or people together

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• mate

  verb place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
  Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves

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• Lookup MATE using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

Synonyms

Words that sound like 'mate'

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