5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
noun a pair of people who live together
noun the officer below the master on a commercial ship
noun a fellow member of a team
originTwo main origins: * Borrowed from Hungarian Mátés, a pet form of the personal name Máté. * Borrowed from Catalan Mates, from the plural of mata (“scrub”).
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