pet
/pɛt/ noun A1- An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use. · family pet, pet cat, pet dog, pet store· My dog Fido has been a loyal pet for ten years.
- Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. · pet plant, pet rock
- One who is excessively loyal to a superior and receives preferential treatment.
- Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
Plural pets
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Poor Mortimer will never see his pet again.
Sometimes Bagheera the Black Panther would come lounging through the jungle to see how his pet was getting on, and would purr with his head against a tree while Mowgli recited the day’s lesson to Baloo.
She said Malcolm told Susan that his dad had given him the farm in his own name and then said, ‘What do you say, darling pet, if we get hitched this fall?
Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: “Dinah’s our cat.
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