"wardmate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ward + mate.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2002, Gregory J. W. Urwin, Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island, →ISBN, page 290:",
          "text": "Turning to cheer a worried wardmate, Kennedy announced they had nothing to fear — only to change his mind an instant later when bullets started coming through the ceiling.",
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          "ref": "2010, Houston Gwynne Jones, The Sonarman's War: A Memoir of Submarine Chasing and Mine Sweeping in World War II, →ISBN, page 94:",
          "text": "...in remembrance of hospital wardmate Joe Johnson, who gave me, if not a change in identity, a new name.",
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        "A patient in the same ward of a hospital"
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  "etymology_text": "From ward + mate.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "2010, Houston Gwynne Jones, The Sonarman's War: A Memoir of Submarine Chasing and Mine Sweeping in World War II, →ISBN, page 94:",
          "text": "...in remembrance of hospital wardmate Joe Johnson, who gave me, if not a change in identity, a new name.",
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        "A patient in the same ward of a hospital"
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