playfellow

noun

Definition of playfellownext
as in playmate

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Recent Examples of playfellow De La Warr — whose father was a childhood playfellow of Milne’s son Christopher Robin, the inspiration of the Winnie the Pooh stories — owns Buckhurst Park in East Sussex, which contains the forest known as the Hundred Acre Wood featured in the beloved children’s tales. — Téa Kvetenadze, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for playfellow
  1. playmate
  2. classmate
  3. schoolmate
  4. shipmate
  5. messmate
  6. teammate
  7. colleague
  8. housemate
Noun
  • While some owners might opt to add a playmate to the mix, not all cats desire having another pet in the house.
    — Liz O'Connell, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • But craving collaboration and loving my audiences made that same crowd my playmates, my bandmates.
    — A.D. Amorosi, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Definition of playmate
Noun
  • Every episode exploring the fallout of a 13-year-old boy, Jamie (Owen Cooper), being accused of murdering one of his classmates, Katie (Emilia Holliday), is shot in a single take.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Adolescence stars Cooper as Jamie Miller, a 13-year-old boy, who’s suspected of killing his classmate, Katie Leonard.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of classmate
Noun
  • In the limited series — which consists of four episodes that take place in real-time and are all achieved with one camera take — Jamie is suspected in the murder of a 13-year-old female schoolmate named Katie.
    — Tim Lammers, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • At a memorial service held by Vincent’s old schoolmates in California, his friends brought slices of apples to share and reminisced about the apple slices in his lunchbox, cut with absolute symmetry.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of schoolmate
Noun
  • In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible.
    — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of shipmate
Noun
  • But the bacteria found inside those that received messmate microbes changed a lot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • As Rigg, an old friend of mine, later told me, Liebling put himself at ease during the pause, most notably as a messmate.
    — Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
Definition of messmate
Noun
  • Her Japanese teammate, Mone Chiba, was third with 215.24 points while Isabeau Levito and Amber Glenn gave the Americans three of the top five.
    — Dave Skretta, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
  • But the most recent well-wishes might turn some heads, given who the messages are coming from: arguably Watkins’ and her USC teammates’ biggest rivals, UCLA.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of teammate
Noun
  • In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • My recent work with colleagues in computer scientist Pamela Wisniewski’s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab underscores a critical point: social media is neither inherently harmful nor entirely beneficial.
    — Abdulmalik Alluhidan, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of colleague
Noun
  • The defense listed details of Funke’s and Mortensen’s social media and call activity in the hours following their housemates’ deaths.
    — Lauren del Valle, Jean Casarez and Holly Yan, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Everyone in the study began taking their pills once a day within three days of when their housemate first reported symptoms of COVID-19.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of housemate

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“Playfellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/playfellow. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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