shipmate
IPA: ʃˈɪpmeɪt
noun
- (nautical) A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
- (nautical, informal) Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).
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Examples of "shipmate" in Sentences
- He started his days as a young shipmate.
- They're going to stand by their shipmate.
- I was a shipmate of someone who had been a crewman on this ship.
- In season one Nikki started a relationship with fellow shipmate ET.
- Donovan has given the bar to his old shipmate as a wedding present.
- Hader lent his voice to the audiobook of Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates.
- Frank tells Lemmy he's not getting on at all well with hitaker, his shipmate.
- Opheltes was also a shipmate of Acoetes who was opposed to kidnapping Dionysus.
- A shipmate described him as easily the most interesting midshipman I ever met .
- A shipmate is literally a mate on one's own ship, ie. a member of the same ship.
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