Definitions for shipmate

shipmate ship·mate

Spelling: [ship-meyt]
IPA: /ˈʃɪpˌmeɪt/

Shipmate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 475 anagrams from letters in shipmate (aehimpst).

Definitions for shipmate

noun

  1. a person who serves with another on the same vessel.

Origin of shipmate

First recorded in 1740-50; ship1 + mate1

Examples for shipmate

George was the son of my shipmate, who witnessed the whole affair.

Dick described the arrival of the young lord and his shipmate.

They were touched by their own readiness to alleviate a shipmate's misery.

And Miss Avondale was the "party" this man's shipmate was watching!

Do you think he won't do me a turn, when it's to help himself in the end, shipmate?'

He looked like a harbinger of tempest, a shipmate of the Flying Dutchman.

He was the first, and only Prince I ever had for a shipmate.

He was a native of Hull, and a shipmate of mine on board the 'Westmoreland.'

He felt no pain, and scarcely knew whether it was his own or that of a shipmate.

You were a little under the weather yesterday, shipmate—what was the cause of it?

Word Value for shipmate
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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