lifemate

English

Etymology

life +‎ mate

Noun

lifemate (plural lifemates)

  1. A companion for life.
    • 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
      He’s a warlock—albeit a mediocre one. His next-door neighbor and platonic lifemate, poised, purple-clad witch Mrs. Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett), is much more powerful.
    • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Introduction:
      The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.

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