crewmate

noun

crew·​mate ˈkrü-ˌmāt How to pronounce crewmate (audio)
: a fellow crewman

Examples of crewmate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Kohler and her crewmates put on their wildfire gear — fire-resistant pants and jackets — and drove in a pickup to the scene. Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2023 On future trips to the Florida spaceport, Koch and her crewmates will climb inside the Orion crew module multiple times for testing and checkouts. Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2023 Officials have told media that, during the boarding, one of the SEALs fell into the sea and the other went in after in an attempt to save his crewmate. TIME, 22 Jan. 2024 Once their surface operations are complete, the astronauts will ascend on Starship to rejoin their crewmates onboard Orion for the return to Earth. Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024 The mission had been planned to orbit Earth, but intelligence reports that the Soviets were readying a crewed mission around the moon led NASA to change its plan, sending Mr. Borman, Lovell and crewmate William Anders more than 230,000 miles away from Earth and to orbit the moon 10 times. Eryn Brown, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023 Rubio and his two Russian crewmates, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, were never in grave danger aboard the ISS as NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos scrambled to secure their journey home. Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023 One of Felipe’s crewmates showed up at his home asking for him. Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023 Before his death, Borman was the oldest living former NASA astronaut, 11 days older than Jim Lovell, his Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 crewmate, who now assumes the title. Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of crewmate was in 1938

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“Crewmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crewmate. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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