Get to know Shipmate better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like associate.
Shipmate meaning
- A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
- Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).
Synonyms of Shipmate
Using Shipmate
- The main meaning on this page is: A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another. | Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).
- Useful related words include: associate.
- In the example corpus, shipmate often appears in combinations such as: shipmate and, my shipmate.
Context around Shipmate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shipmate
- In this selection, "shipmate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, lanning, friend, magazine, friend, fellow and robert stand out and add context to how "shipmate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include caleb lanning shipmate friend and and comrade friend shipmate fellow soldier. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shipmate" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shipmate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The crew mourns the loss of their shipmate and memorial plans are pending. (13 words)
He also wrote Hercules, My Shipmate in 1945 which was first published as The Golden Fleece in 1944. (18 words)
Note: In "Hercules, My Shipmate" Robert Graves claims that Heracles fathered more children than anyone else of the crew. (19 words)
These ships brought gifts to the Americas from Europe; the Niña bringing with its explorers also brought mass genocide, the Pinta carried foreign diseases in the palms of the shipmate’s hands and the Santa Maria enslaved thousands of indigenous peoples. (41 words)
Joy Davidman She was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier. (33 words)
The magazine "Shipmate" is the official magazine of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and is distributed worldwide to members of the Alumni Association and to midshipmen, parents, faculty, administrators, donors, legislators, and friends. (33 words)
Example sentences (11)
The crew mourns the loss of their shipmate and memorial plans are pending.
These ships brought gifts to the Americas from Europe; the Niña bringing with its explorers also brought mass genocide, the Pinta carried foreign diseases in the palms of the shipmate’s hands and the Santa Maria enslaved thousands of indigenous peoples.
He was a shipmate of Dale Coultas and suggested that Dale should come on a double date with them and his sister-in-law, Nina.
Steinke started his journey back in 2008 and with the help of Joel Ruud, a shipmate, and illustrator Andy Catling, he was finally able to publish his book.
He also wrote Hercules, My Shipmate in 1945 which was first published as The Golden Fleece in 1944.
In it, Campbell relayed Captain Cal Laning 's Presumably, this is later Rear Admiral Caleb Lanning, shipmate, friend, and occasional co-author of Heinlein.
Joy Davidman She was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier.
Note: In "Hercules, My Shipmate" Robert Graves claims that Heracles fathered more children than anyone else of the crew.
The game's subtitle comes from the final portion, in which Roger has to undergo miniaturization and enter the body of a shipmate and romantic interest.
The magazine "Shipmate" is the official magazine of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and is distributed worldwide to members of the Alumni Association and to midshipmen, parents, faculty, administrators, donors, legislators, and friends.
Upon his return, Larry brought with him a guitar he had bought from a shipmate while serving in the Pacific.
Common combinations with shipmate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- shipmate and 3×
- my shipmate 2×