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Synonyms for mate
Synonyms for mate: fellow and couple. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for mate
Two senses of mate, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
one of a pair
He lost the mate to his shoe.
mate in 2 more sentences, same sense
- She found the mate to the earring buried under the couch cushion.
- The old sock lost its mate somewhere in the laundry basket.
How it behaves: In this sense, mate usually appears as the object of verbs like lose, find, or match, often in the construction 'the mate to' something, in a casual, everyday register.
The true synonym
fellow
Same sentence, swapped: He lost the fellow to his shoe.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot mate is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- spouse
- checkmate
- lay
engage in sexual intercourse
Birds mate in the spring.
mate in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Salmon swim upstream for miles before they mate in the same gravel beds each year.
- The zoo's breeding program relies on pandas that refuse to mate without careful encouragement from keepers.
How it behaves: Mate typically functions as an intransitive verb describing animals, often followed by "with" plus another animal, and appears mostly in biological or nature writing register.
The true synonym
couple
Same sentence, swapped: Birds couple in the spring.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot mate is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- checkmate
- piece
- feather
Where mate turns up in the game
mate is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where mate is the trap
- matchverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fit, in the sense "make correspond or harmonize", and mate is on the board beside it.
- matchverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is pit, in the sense "set into opposition or rivalry", and mate is on the board beside it.
- bestverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trump, in the sense "get the better of", with mate sitting one tile away.
- coffeenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is java, in the sense "a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans", so mate is there to be ruled out.
Play mate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because quantity is the company mate keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mate carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.