different between playmate vs intimate
playmate
English
Etymology
From play +? mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.
Noun
playmate (plural playmates)
- A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
- A female who has appeared as the centerfold in Playboy magazine.
- (euphemistic) A person's lover.
Synonyms
- (companion for playing): playfellow
Translations
Anagrams
- metaplay, teamplay
playmate From the web:
intimate
English
Etymology
From Latin intimare (“to put or bring into, to impress, to make familiar”), from intimus (“inmost, innermost, most intimate”), superlative of intus (“within”), from in (“in”); see interior.
Pronunciation
Adjective, noun
- enPR: ?n't?m?t, IPA(key): /??n.t?.m?t/
Verb
- enPR: ?n't?m?t, IPA(key): /??n.t?.me?t/
Adjective
intimate (comparative more intimate, superlative most intimate)
- Closely acquainted; familiar.
- an intimate friend
- He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
- Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
- She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
- Personal; private.
- an intimate setting
- Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.
Translations
Noun
intimate (plural intimates)
- A very close friend.
- Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
- (in plural intimates) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
- You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Synonyms
- (close friend): bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousin
Translations
Verb
intimate (third-person singular simple present intimates, present participle intimating, simple past and past participle intimated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.
- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
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Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
- The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
- He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.
- (transitive, India) To notify.
- I will intimate you when the details are available.
Translations
Related terms
- intimacy
- intimation
Further reading
- intimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- intimate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- antitime
Esperanto
Adverb
intimate
- present adverbial passive participle of intimi
Italian
Verb
intimate
- second-person plural present indicative of intimare
- second-person plural imperative of intimare
- feminine plural of intimato
Anagrams
- imitante
Latin
Verb
intim?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of intim?
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