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castmate

castmate

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A person who acts in the same play, show, or film as you
  • noun
  • /ˈkæstˌmeɪt/
: compañero de reparto
  • She felt grateful for the support of her castmates throughout the production.
  • fellow castmate
  • former castmate
  • several castmates

I when I saw my castmates last night, inventing my fellow castmates from the help Viola and Emma and everybody, it just lifted my spirits.

Examples

  • She's also pushing the idea that all the moms are buddies, tweeting yesterday about how excited she was to be reunited with her castmates.

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  • He chuckled but humbly reminded us that he had a decent crowd the day before, and some of his fellow castmates had only arrived that day.

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  • But I got to ask my castmates for help, and I would ask them how they all went about it.

  • Fellow castmate Angela Kinsey also took to her Twitter in the wake of the sad news.

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  • That level of commitment impressed Thieriot's castmates.

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  • She talked about dating, the rumors she's dating her castmate Rob, her new season, and having babies.

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  • Now that castmates Snooki and JWoww are both recently engaged, we only have one question: are wedding bells in the air for the original Jersey Shore couple?

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  • During one of our days off, my fellow castmate and I wandered over towards the sound of live country music, the smell of cotton candy, and the sight of red, white, and blue decorations dangling from tree branches: my first small-town fair.

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  • During rehearsals, I often bond with my castmates over our shared experiences.

  • After the performance, we celebrated with our castmates at a local restaurant.

Surface Forms

castmate singular
castmates plural

Morphology

castmate = cast + mate (transparent) = cast + mate

The meaning follows directly from 'cast' (group of actors) + 'mate' (companion), so a member of the same cast is readily inferable.

Etymology

The word castmate is made of cast ('group of actors') and mate ('friend' or 'partner'), so a castmate is simply a fellow actor who shares the same cast with you.