crewmate

noun

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

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During a press conference in Houston on April 11, Koch opened up about the support of her crewmates during the mission. Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026 My crewmates seemed surprised to get this kind of pushback from within the Mars Society. Elena Saavedra Buckley, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026 Four days after the trans-lunar injection engine firing, Wiseman and his crewmates reached a point in space 248,655 miles from Earth, the previous record for the farthest any human has flown into deep space. William Harwood, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026 Glover and his crewmates — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — were the first people to launch aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule. Denise Chow, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026 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 13 May. 2026.

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