crewmate

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noun

A member of the same crew.

“Near-synonym: teammate”

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teammate
OriginEnglish mate ← Middle English mate ← Middle Low German mate →
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Meanings

nouncrewmate (plural crewmates)

plural crewmates

  1. A member of the same crew.

    Near-synonym: teammate

    1 more example

    The company shard specific data from today’s flight on social media, revealing that the New Shepard capsule that carried Katy Perry, Gayle King and their crewmates to space hit 346,802 feet above ground level (AGL) and 350,449 above mean sea level (MSL). […] King also revealed that her crewmate Katy Perry sang in space, offering a few lines of the song “What a Wonderful World.”

    2025 April 14, Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland and Taylor Nicioli, “Blue Origin launches star-studded crew on space tourism rocket”, in CNN

    Synonyms: teammate

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA member of the same crew.

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teammate

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱreh₁-sḱéti
  3. Latincrēscere
  4. Old Frenchcreistre
  5. Old Frenchcreue
  6. Middle Englishcrue
  7. Englishcrew
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  9. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  10. Proto-Germanic*ga-
  11. Proto-Germanic*matiz
  12. Proto-Germanic*matjô
  13. Proto-West Germanic*gamatjô
  14. Old Saxongimato
  15. Middle Low Germanmate
  16. Middle Englishmate
  17. Englishmate
  18. Englishcrewmate

From crew + -mate.

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APA

crewmate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crewmate

MLA

“crewmate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crewmate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crewmate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crewmate.

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