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crewman

crewman noun: a member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship.

Noun

crewman (plural crewmen)

  1. A member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship.
    • Next year this service is to be operated entirely by automatic control, though the trains will carry at least one crewman.1963 October, “Robot Central Line trains”, in Modern Railways, page 262
  2. (Canada) Synonym of armoured crewman.
    Synonyms:
    armoured crewman

crewman meaning in Bengali

crewman in Bengali

কর্মীদলের একজন সদস্য

Examples of crewman in a sentence

  • Captain Bligh and some loyal crewmen were cast adrift in the middle of the Pacific.
  • Emerging crewmen hoisted boxes of ammo, firearms, radio sets and life vests on deck.
  • Aung San escaped by disguising himself as a Chinese crewman on a Norwegian boat.

All 12 example sentences with crewman

Synonyms of crewman

  • armoured crewman

Forms of crewman

pluralcrewmen

Plural of crewman: crewmen

Origin of crewman

From crew + -man.

Words formed from crewman

Words that rhyme with crewman

Questions about crewman

What does crewman mean?
Crewman means a member of a crew, especially the crew of a ship.
What is crewman in Bengali?
Crewman in Bengali is কর্মীদলের একজন সদস্য. See Crewman meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is crewman?
Crewman is a noun.
What is the plural of crewman?
The plural of crewman is crewmen.

Words near crewman in the dictionary

  1. crewing
  2. crewing up
  3. Crewkerne
  4. crewless
  5. crewlessness
  6. crewman
  7. crewmanship
  8. crewmate
  9. crewmates
  10. crewmember
  11. crewmembers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crewman (page history and authors); crewman (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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