Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fellow member of a crew, especially of a crew of astronauts.
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- noun A member of the same
crew .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Blood flowed, and the first man struck back, cracking his crewmate on the temple.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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Who can tell which crewmate may be a crypto-Papist Spanish spy?
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A turbulence or a shock wave from that plane crossing the sound barrier could have shattered Gagarin's plane cockpit and knocked him and his crewmate unconscious as their MiG-15 fell into a steep dive and slammed into a forest.
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I was looking for Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger Chaffee, who, along with their crewmate Ed White, had been killed while training for the first crewed Apollo mission in 1967.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC: White Roses for Explorers, Part 3 Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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The Enterprise, of course, hears that the battle is going badly and disobeys orders, saving the crew of the Defiant, which includes old crewmate Worf, on their way to Sector 001 (Earth).
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Earlier Tuesday, Coleman's station crewmate astronaut Ron Garan noted that Gagarin's flight and the first shuttle launch were byproducts of a space race between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Shuttle crewmembers grow close to each other's families, said Kelly's crewmate Greg Johnson.
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Shuttle crewmembers grow close to each other's families, said Kelly's crewmate Greg Johnson.
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Blood flowed, and the first man struck back, cracking his crewmate on the temple.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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I was looking for Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger Chaffee, who, along with their crewmate Ed White, had been killed while training for the first crewed Apollo mission in 1967.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC: White Roses for Explorers, Part 3 Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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