crewmate

crewmate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti
Latin crēscere
Old French creistre
Old French creuebor.
Middle English crue
English crew
English -mate
English crewmate

    From crew + -mate.

    Noun

    crewmate (plural crewmates)

    1. A member of the same crew.
      Hypernyms: crewmember, crewperson, crewman, crewwoman
      Near-synonym: teammate
      • 2025 April 14, Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland and Taylor Nicioli, “Blue Origin launches star-studded crew on space tourism rocket”, in CNN‎[1]:
        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.”
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