mate
noun [C] (FRIEND) /meɪt/Definition
B1 UK informal a friend: We've been mates since our school days. I usually play football with some of my mates from the office on Saturdays. She's my best mate.Friends, acquaintances and contemporaries › [as form of address] UK informal used as a friendly way of talking to someone, especially a man: Have you got the time, mate?Friendly and unfriendly terms of address
(Definition of mate noun (FRIEND) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a friend in need is a friend indeed idiom
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- acquainted adjective
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- blood brother noun
- companion noun (PERSON)
- comrade noun (FRIEND)
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- flatmate noun
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- girl noun
- girlfriend noun
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