mate

1. 1.

   engage in sexual intercourse

   “Birds mate in the Spring”

   Synonymscopulatepaircouple

   Broaderjoin

   Narrowernicksleep togethertreadservedeflowerridebreedsodomize
2. 2.

   bring two objects, ideas, or people together

   “This fact is coupled to the other one”

   “Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?”

   “The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project”

   Synonymsmatchcouplepairtwin

   Broaderjoin

   Narrowermismatemismatch
3. 3.

   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”

   Synonymscheckmate

   Broaderbeat

   chess

Other forms of mate

plural

mates·

past tense

mated·

present participle

mating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mate

What does mate mean?

mate means "the officer below the master on a commercial ship". That is the primary sense; the word has 13 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mate?

mate has 1 syllable: mate. In IPA it is /ˈmeɪt/.

What is another word for mate?

Close synonyms include first mate, teammate, spouse, partner, married person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mate a common word?

mate is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mate?

17 words rhyme with mate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.