shipmate

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
    — "And who else?" returned the other, getting more at his ease. "Black Dog as ever was, come for to see his old shipmate Billy, at the 'Admiral Benbow' inn. Ah, Bill, Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two, since I lost them two talons," holding up his mutilated hand.
  2. Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor). informal

词形变化

shipmates plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.?
Proto-Germanic *skipą
Proto-West Germanic *skip
Old English scip
Middle English schip
English ship
English -mate
English shipmate
From ship + -mate.
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