crewmate

noun

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

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Wang and his three crewmates—filmmaker Jannicke Mikkelsen, roboticist Rabea Rogge and polar explorer Eric Philips—all rode in Resilience, the Crew Dragon vehicle that has flown three other crews (two of them private) to space. Lee Billings, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2025 Three hours later, Kim and his Russian crewmates—Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky—chased down the International Space Station and moved in for a picture-perfect docking aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft. ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025 Filling out the cast as Murderbot's crewmates are Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones and Tamara Podemski. Shania Russell, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025 Three hours and two orbits of Earth after this photo was taken, the three crewmates arrived at their new home for the next eight months. Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crewmate

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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 2 May. 2025.

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