Meaning
2 sensesA member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship.
any male member of a ship's crew
(Canada)Synonym of armoured crewman.
Examples
4 sentencesTom is a crewman on a spaceship.
The periscope allows the crewmen of the submarine to see everything that happens above the surface.
The coxswain egged his crewmen on, and made a winning spurt at the last lap of the regatta.
ruРулевой раззадорил команду и осуществил победный рывок на финальном этапе регаты. — shanghainese
deDer Steuermann feuerte seine Mannschaft an und machte einen Siegesspurt in der letzten Runde der Regatta. — Yorwba
At the age of 29, Haibin Liang became a crewman on international cargo ships.
Forms
plural: crewmenSynonyms
1 synonymsarmoured crewman
Word family
1 related wordsDerivedcrewmanship
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular