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teammate

team·mate
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [teem-meyt]
    • /ˈtimˌmeɪt/
    • /ˈtiːm.meɪt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [teem-meyt]
    • /ˈtimˌmeɪt/

Definitions of teammate word

  • noun teammate a member of the same team. 1
  • noun teammate sport: fellow player 1
  • noun teammate work: colleague 1
  • noun teammate partner 1
  • countable noun teammate In a game or sport, your teammates are the other members of your team. 0
  • noun teammate a fellow member on a team 0
See all 6 definitions of teammate

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Origin of teammate

First appearance:

before 1910
One of the 15% newest English words
First recorded in 1910-15; team + mate1

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Teammate

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Teammate

teammate popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

teammate usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for teammate

noun teammate

  • co-worker — Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
  • collaborator — A collaborator is someone that you work with to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
  • colleague — Your colleagues are the people you work with, especially in a professional job.
  • confrere — colleague
  • coworker — Your coworkers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
All 9 Synonyms of teammate

Antonyms for teammate

noun teammate

  • foursome — a company or set of four; two couples; a quartet: to make up a foursome for bridge.
Just one Antonym for teammate

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Related words

  • interference

    an act, fact, or instance of interfering.

  • pick-and-roll

    an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.

  • alley-oop

    used as an exclamation accompanying the act of lifting, rising, etc.

  • assist

    If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.

  • bootleg play

    a play in which the quarterback pretends to hand the ball to a teammate, hides it by placing it next to his hip, and runs with it.

  • drop pass

    (in hockey and soccer) a pass in which a player in control of the ball or puck simply leaves it to be picked up by a trailing teammate and continues past it to draw off the defense.
All related words to teammate

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