crewmate

noun

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

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The New Shepard mission itself lasted roughly 10 minutes – during the flight, the rocket accelerated Benthaus and her five crewmates to more than three times the speed of sound, carrying the capsule beyond the Kármán Line on a brief suborbital trajectory. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025 But Artemis 2 will still be the first piloted trip back to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, carrying Wiseman and his crewmates farther from Earth than any other humans have ever traveled. William Harwood, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2025 Her flight aboard New Shepard lasted around 10 minutes, as the rocket fired its engines to propel Benthaus and her five crewmates to more than three times the speed of sound and soar past the Kármán Line. Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025 Blue Origin was forced to scrub th launch of its suborbital New Shepard rocket carrying Benthaus and her five crewmates, which was scheduled to lift off from the company's West Texas launch site Thursday. Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewmate

Word History

First Known Use

1938, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 25 Dec. 2025.

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