crewmate

noun

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

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Kud-Sverchkov and his two Soyuz MS-28 crewmates — Sergey Mikaev and NASA astronaut Chris Williams — will have the station to themselves until mid February when Crew 12 commander Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev arrive. William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026 Their two crewmates on the SpaceX mission are Japan's Kimiya Yui and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. Mike Wall, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2026 The pop singer and her crewmates got the chance to take a quick trip beyond Earth's atmosphere, complete with out-of-this-world views thanks to billionaire Jeff Bezos's private space company Blue Origin. Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 27 Dec. 2025 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 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 14 Jan. 2026.

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