agemate \EYJ-meyt\, noun:
A person of about the same age as another.
She tolerates the family, especially an agemate named Isabelle, although they kid her about getting letters from a mysterious swain every day.
-- Faye Moskowitz, Her face in the Mirror
She had no agemate in that house, no one she could think of as an ally.
-- Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge
Agemate entered English in the late 1500s when the word mate meant "guest" in Old English.
另一個相同年齡的人。
她容忍的家庭，尤其是名為伊莎貝爾agemate，雖然他們騙她每天從一個神秘的情郎字母。
- 莫斯科維茨王菲，她在鏡中的臉
她在那家沒有agemate，沒有一個她認為作為盟友。
- 朱莉Orringer，無形的橋樑
agemate進入16世紀後期的英語字隊友時意味著在古英語中的“客人”。
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