Mates is valid Scrabble Word

Is mates a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is mates valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for MATES in dictionary:

VERB:

MATE, to couple with
(of animals or birds) come together for breeding; copulate
bring (animals) together for breeding
connect or be connected mechanically

NOUN:

the sexual partner of a bird or other animal
one of a matched pair
a fellow member or joint occupant of a specified thing
a friend or companion
used as a friendly form of address between men or boys
an assistant or deputy in certain trades

an officer on a merchant ship subordinate to the master.
a pair of people who live together
a person's husband, wife, or other sexual partner

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to join as mates (partners in a union)

Words related to MATES

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How to use MATES in a sentence

At such times the nervous girls would jump in their seats, and there would follow hysterical, though quickly subdued, bursts of laughter from their more stolid mates, or the boys.
The Skipper and the two Mates nodded their heads, in silent assent.
At the words, Goddedaal, who sat next to him, touched him with his elbow, and the two mates exchanged a significant look.
Since there was nothing else for the children to do, they sat and watched the two mates eat, all of them feeling decidedly cross, especially Peter.
He remarked the natives cheering, And, directed by the din, Saw the plight his mates were in.
True to their compact they did not speak, and the inclination of Spot to stop for the usual visit beside his stable mates received no encouragement.
We laid down a while, and then it was decided that the first and second mates should have a good feed and try to get up the precipice.
Along by the big quarry he met his mates returning.
But, as a matter of fact, Pad died in the moment of stoppage, and two of his mates got their release while yet in the traces.
His mates chuckled to each other and ceased talking.

You get more out of your Shakespeare than most of your mates because you understand so many of his references.
Every woman has thousands of true physical mates if she could only meet them.
They must pull together as mates and work for what is best for all, not each man be trying only for himself and caring little whether others live or die.
One monkey grabbed a cracker in each paw, but they were immediately snatched from him by some of his mates.
With the aid of a line and a boat hook which one of his mates fastened firmly to his collar, he was drawn aboard.
Her people had stuck to her for eight months, then made off in a body with the boats, carrying their captain and mates along with them.
At the turn he and his team mates could feel Lannigan gathering in the reins as though for a full stop.
There was his old driver, there were his old team mates.
The gunner and his mates went round the batteries to make sure that all was ready.
He, with the two mates, at once ascended to the fore top.
Another flight of arrows, when the mates let go a charge of pistol shot that dropped the foremost three Indians.
Even Will, who was less robust than his mates, and not as accustomed to hurrying along through dense woods, shut his teeth hard together and persevered.
The turns had scarcely been made, and nothing had been coiled down, when the men and mates swept back to the poop in panic terror.
The two mates were afraid he might run away, but, had he done so, the captain would not have regretted it very much.
Presently Dodge was within sixty feet of where his High School mates crouched in hiding.
Splendid fielding on the part of Hugh and his mates kept the score down, but nevertheless it continued to mount, in spite of all their efforts.
The two mates and the engineers cowered in their rooms as though the doors were a barrier against the small-pox germs.
The youth of genius will be apt to retire from the active sports of his mates.

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