bondmate

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noun

A person with whom one has an intimate emotional or spiritual bond.

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Meanings

nounbondmate (plural bondmates)

plural bondmates

  1. fantasyA person with whom one has an intimate emotional or spiritual bond.

    She's also my bondmate.

    2016, L.A. Starkey, Chess Desalls, Kelly Hall, Tricia Copeland, Melanie Rodriguez, Spellbound: A Paranormal Young Adult Novella Collection, BrixBaxter Publishing, page 94
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    "They permit the bonded to speak to each other's minds and they can be used to monitor the bondmate's well being. With the deeper bonds, it allows one bondmate to share the pain and wounds of the other, to avert what might otherwise be a fatal injury.

    2014, Ekaterine Xia, Phoenix Chosen, Ekaterine Xia, →ISBN, page 176

    Not because she wanted to hurt something, but rather because her bondmate called to her instinctual desire to mate.

    2014, Michele Hauf, Ghost Wolf, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 280

Origin

From bond + -mate.

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APA

bondmate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bondmate

MLA

“bondmate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bondmate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bondmate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bondmate.

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