Mateship

Quick meaning: Mateship is a noun meaning (countable and uncountable, nautical) The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate.

Meaning

(countable and uncountable, nautical) The post of mate on a ship; a posting as mate.

More Meanings

1. (countable, whaling, obsolete) A type of contract between ships to cooperate and share the proceeds of an expedition.
2. (uncountable) Fellowship; companionship.
3. (uncountable, Australia, New Zealand) Friendship, particularly between men, such as develops in shared adversity; solidarity.
4. (countable, zoology, psychology, anthropology) A relationship based on mating.

Example Sentences

[…]as, for instance, the contract termed mateship, by which one whaling-ship meeting another forms a partnership in the proceeds of the expedition.

The bush is the crucible of Australian national identity because it is here that mateship, that linchpin of Australian national identity, was forged.

The mateships of the three last-named animals are solitary, though in the case of wolves, the separated members of various mateships gather in packs during the winter months.

“Don′t mind if I do,” I answered, and thus begun a mateship that in the course of the next few months was to yield to each of us a fairly big experience of adventure, and, what was more acceptable to me, a good round sum in cash.

Word Forms

• mateships

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mate, messmate, matiness, make, matie, mitey.

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