crewmate

noun

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

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Inside Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, Aisha Bowe strapped in alongside her five crewmates for a quick, 10.5-minute suborbital ride to space and back. New Shepard's rocket lifted off with the sextet on Monday at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas. Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 Apr. 2025 While walking toward the capsule, King and her crewmates rang a ceremonial bell before boarding. Edward Segarra, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025 An emergency on their ship sends them scrambling, and when their crewmate (Finn Cole) gets trapped on the seabed with only five minutes of oxygen in his tank, the two divers have to get creative – and fast – to save him. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025 During Polaris Dawn, the first flight of the Polaris Program, Isaacman and his three crewmates got farther from Earth than any people had been since the Apollo era. Mike Wall, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewmate

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 5 Jun. 2025.

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