单词 | chamber-mate |
释义 | > as lemmaschamber-mate chamber-mate n. = chamber-fellow n.; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house > lodger > room-mate chamber-fellow1535 comrade1591 comrado1598 chamber-mate1612 roommate1789 bunkie1858 suitemate1893 roomie1911 1612 Witches Northampton-shire sig. D3 The prison which makes men bee fellowes and chambermates with theeues, and murtherers. 1725 D. Turner App. Art of Surg. 60 He regain'd so much of his Speech, as to acquit his Chamber-mate. 1819 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 908 Jealousy will lour at his door and discord be his constant Table-guest and his Chamber-mate. 1886 G. C. Brodrick Hist. Univ. Oxf. 22 His chamber mates and class mates. 1948 M. E. Chase Jonathan Fisher ii. 21 His ‘chumb’, or chamber-mate..was to continue living with him during his four years as an undergraduate. 2002 J. Coakley in R. B. Browne et al. Detective as Historian 89 Bartholomew's chamber-mate, Philosophy Master Giles Abigny. < as lemmas |
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