(n.) A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate.
Example Sentences:
Playmate
Definition:
(n.) A companion in diversions; a playfellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) While Hefner's pinups were dubbed Playmates, Guccione's centrefold models – whom he sometimes photographed himself – were named Penthouse Pets.
(2) Johnnie Williams, they’ve said, became her “favorite playmate”, and the two exchanged 1,200 calls and text messages over several months .
(3) My son's only playmate – sometimes – is his dog (bought purely for this reason).
(4) Persistent drooling not only creates troublesome hygienic problems for patients, teachers, nurses, and playmates because of the constant soiling of clothes, toys, and work materials, but also causes an odor from their clothing and bibs.
(5) The findings showed that multiple personality can be differentiated from the other groups on variables such as history of physical abuse, sexual abuse, substance abuse, sleepwalking, childhood imaginary playmates, secondary features of multiple personality and extrasensory and supernatural experiences.
(6) Nonhandicapped siblings engaged each other more as playmates.
(7) However, specific environmental variables such as parental attitudes and playmate patterns were significantly correlated with test performance.
(8) In June the 84-year-old Playboy founder is set to marry Crystal Harris, 24, Playboy Playmate of the month in December 2009.
(9) Utilizing clinical examples, I attempt to show that the memories Freud recalled on his return to his childhood home in adolescence screened the traumata he had suffered when he lost his Kinderfrau, then his playmates and the Freiberg countryside during his early childhood.
(10) When a young boy was shot in the neck by a playmate using a .22-caliber single-action revolver, permanent paralysis from mid-thorax downward ensued.
(11) You can be a cook, a cleaner, a friend, a playmate, you can be an ear, you can be a bloody joiner, a decorator.” A couple of months back, a dyslexic boy read in class the words “I, Me, Mine”.
(12) The present study concerns ethnic, age, and gender playmate preferences of deaf and hearing preschoolers who were observed during outdoor free play at their respective schools over a 7-month period.
(13) The multimillionaire lothario has kept paternal about Playboy, and last month announced his third marriage, to 24-year-old Playmate Crystal Harris.
(14) Data were collected for 868 male and female university students in psychology over a 10-year period; the 19% of students who reported this early experience displayed more frequent depersonalization, beliefs in psi phenomena, sensations of presence, sensitivity to odors, widened affect, childhood imaginary playmates, and left (writing) handedness.
(15) Zoster immune plasma (ZIP) was given to 31 susceptible immunocompromised children one to seven days (median, two days) following household, playmate, or hospital exposures to varicella.
(16) the 'imaginary playmates' of childhood and visual hallucinations in the face of a severe grief reaction.
(17) Findings suggested that nonhandicapped children work harder, receive and emit fewer social reinforcers, have less opportunity to play and have fun, and achieve lower levels of social play when their playmate is physically handicapped as well as severely mentally retarded.
(18) It turns out he is titled February, so maybe he's playmate of the month.
(19) Factoral analysis of the relationships allows us to think that the child's behavior is influenced by the father's sharing the caregiving on 3 levels: motors skills, opening-up to playmates (peers), a healthy safe relationship with the adult.
(20) Morrissey's first female crush was … a man "Jerry Nolan on the cover of the [New York] Dolls' debut album is the first woman I ever fell in love with; the hussy-slut positioning of the legs is playmate call-girl, and the pink drum kit might be a rock'n'roll first."