crewmate
- noun
- /ˈkruːmeɪt/
- Then they tried to convince my crewmates, as individuals, that it was in our best interest to surrender.
And at some point in their life, they decide that they want to rejoin their crewmates.
- And at some point in their life, they decide that they want to rejoin their crewmates.
Examples
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Anna eyed Sandy Magnus, a fellow Illinoisan and STS-135 mission specialist, standing with her crewmates Doug Hurley and Rex Walheim.
Blog text (18) -
As this went on, Stephen looked over his crewmates.
Fiction book (1998) -
Victor was my my crewmate and I look around and there was just three of us instead of four.
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My crewmate there was John Keith Miller, whose father would later be my major professor in college.
Academic text (1999) -
I've got to find my crewmates.
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March 22, 2008, had been an ordinary day for 25-year-old Evan Holmes and his crewmates on the fishing boat Alaska Ranger.
Academic text (2011) -
Williams gave a brief "Hello!" to her crewmate and commenced their translation along the port-side truss to the P-6 worksite.
Blog text (11) -
During that time, she performed two spacewalks and, along with her crewmates, helped conduct hundreds of scientific experiments.
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Happily, one of Kelly's crewmates was a chemist named Cady Coleman.
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Linenger and his Russian crewmates donned masks and frantically fought the fire.
Synonyms
A person you work with at the same job or company
A person who is on the same team as you
A person who works as part of a team on a ship, plane, or film set
A person who works with others on a ship, aircraft, or vehicle
A person who works with others on a ship or plane
A person who works with you in the same company or team
A person who has a job at the same office or company as you
A woman who works with others on a ship, plane, or film set
A person who works on a plane during a flight
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word crewmate combines crew ('a group who work together on a ship, plane, or spacecraft') and mate ('friend' or 'companion'), much like the word teammate. So a crewmate is a person who works with you and shares the same ship or mission.