castmate

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noun

Someone with whom one performs together, as a member of a cast.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nouncastmate (plural castmates)

plural castmates

  1. Someone with whom one performs together, as a member of a cast.

    “We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew,” the five actors said. “We were more than just castmates. We are a family.[…]”

    2023 October 30, Sian Cain, “Friends stars release statement after death of Matthew Perry: ‘We were more than just castmates’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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    A few feet away, her friend and castmate Tara Ross, also 18, was applying makeup; outside their door, a couple of boys were sacked out on a couch, studying notes in binders.

    2007 June 14, Melena Ryzik, “Unwelcome at Home, Student Play Is a Hit in New York”, in The New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*kas-
  2. Proto-Germanic*kastōną
  3. Old Norsekasta
  4. Middle Englishcasten
  5. Englishcast
  6. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  8. Proto-Germanic*ga-
  9. Proto-Germanic*matiz
  10. Proto-Germanic*matjô
  11. Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
  12. Old Saxongimato
  13. Middle Low Germanmate
  14. Middle Englishmate
  15. Englishmate
  16. Englishcastmate

From cast + -mate.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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