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A companion at play
Answer for the clue "A companion at play ", 8 letters:
playmate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As children acquire the pidgin, they use it with playmates and other children in their peer group. ▪ But Jane Goodall and others have reported that among chimpanzees, the enemies of the morning will be playmates of the afternoon. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with. 2 A female who has appeared as the centerfold in wikipedia:Playboy magazine.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a companion at play [syn: playfellow ]
Usage examples of playmate.
So he played with her as he would have played with any other playmate, laughing with her, calling to her, and going through his foolish little boyish antics before her.
The boy had had playmates, he knew, and as he had grown tired of them the witch had disposed of them like outworn toys.
The princess was on her way to the Riviera but promised to stop in Albania on her return in September, bringing with her a young grandson as a playmate for Nubar.
At least with the children, both Alyce and Marie soon made themselves favorite playmates, for they were hardly more than children themselves.
Birdsong instead of a playmate with a sunny disposition like Bena Peyton.
I have been familiar from boyhood with mountains and lakes and the sea, and the solitude of forests: Danger, which sports upon the brink of precipices, has been my playmate.
I entered the schoolroom I overlooked no fault and received no excuse for nonperformance of tasks, my transformation into the friend and playmate, once the lessons were over, was thorough and complete.
In the wild but beautiful Bay of Spezzia, the winds and waves which he loved became his playmates.
But Jane Goodall and others have reported that among chimpanzees, the enemies of the morning will be playmates of the afternoon.
Bab and Betty thought the day would never end, and cheered the long hours by expatiating on the pleasures in store for them, till their playmates were much afflicted because they were not going also.
Presently she began talking to the fox, and then brought her doll in to show her so that very soon they were very good playmates together.
Indeed he lived now for nothing but his foxes, his love for his vixen had extended itself insensibly to include her cubs, and these were now his daily playmates so that he knew them as well as if they had been his own children.
But Ayla had no male playmates near her age except Vorn, and since the earlier days when Aga actively discouraged their association, there had never developed any close contact between them.
Agency to send one of your former playmates down there to retrieve your ass.
She swims almost as well as her playmates do, and she finds most of her food out there in deep water.