shipmate Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈʃɪp.meɪt]
  • Us [ ˈʃɪp.meɪt]

Meaning of shipmate In English

  • 0 A sailor's shipmate is another sailor who works on the same ship as they do.

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Examples of shipmate

  • They involved many characters, including parental figures, rivals in love, servants and superiors and a host of minor figures, such as members of royal courts and shipmates.

  • More than this, 'even his shipmates knew'.

  • He visited the relatives of all his shipmates who lost their lives.

  • An enormous amount of our correspondence is concerned with looking after our old comrades and our old shipmates.

  • Immediately afterwards some emergency may arise and the ship and his shipmates may be in danger because of his incapacity.

  • The engineer officer and the executive officer were the same great friends and shipmates as they are to-day.

  • He ought to have stood up for a shipmate.

  • The confinement to the ship in such cases is not a punishment but a necessary precaution to protect both those who decline revaccination and their shipmates.

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