Crew

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A group of people working together; a gang: a crew of stagehands.
  • n. A group of people gathered together temporarily; a crowd.
  • n. All personnel operating or serving aboard a ship.
  • n. All of a ship's personnel except the officers.
  • n. All personnel operating or serving aboard an aircraft in flight.
  • n. Sports A team of rowers, as of a racing shell.
  • n. Sports The sport of rowing.
  • verb-intransitive. To serve as a member of a crew: crewed on a sloop.
  • v. To serve as a crew member on: The space station will be crewed by a team of eight people.
  • v. Chiefly British A past tense of crow2.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, or airplane
  • n. A member of the crew of a vessel or plant
  • n. A member of a ship's company who is not an officer
  • n. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast
  • n. A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast
  • n. A group of people working together on a task
  • n. A close group of friends
  • n. A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker
  • n. A hip-hop group
  • n. The sport of competitive rowing.
  • n. A rowing team manning a single shell.
  • v. To be a member of a vessel's crew
  • v. To be a member of a work or production crew
  • v. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
  • v. To do the proper work of a sailor
  • v. To take on, recruit (new) crew
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of crow. To have made the characteristic sound of a rooster.
  • n. A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The Manx shearwater.
  • n. A company of people associated together; an assemblage; a throng.
  • n. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or at; the company belonging to a vessel or a boat.
  • n. In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang.
  • imp. of crow
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An accession; a reinforcement; a company of soldiers or others sent as a reinforcement, or on an expedition. See accrue, n.
  • n. Any company of people; an assemblage; a crowd: nearly always in a derogatory or a humorous sense.
  • n. Nautical: The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel, or boat; the seamen belonging to a vessel; specifically, the common sailors of a ship's company.
  • n. The company or gang of a ship's carpenter, gunner, boatswain, etc.
  • n. Any company or gang of laborers engaged upon a particular work, as the company of men (engineer, fireman, conductor, brakemen, etc.) who manage and run a railroad-train.
  • n. Synonyms Band, party, herd, mob, horde, throng.
  • n. An archaic preterit of crow.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an informal body of friends
  • n. the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
  • v. serve as a crew member on
  • n. the team of men manning a racing shell
  • n. an organized group of workmen
  • Verb Form
    crewed    crewing    crews   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gathering    assemblage    man    squad    team   
    Variant
    crow   
    Form
    crewer    crew up    uncrewed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    throng    band    mob    herd    company    horde    gang    party    assemblage    force   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku    Blue    Cebu    Chengdu    Chou    Chu    Crewe    Drew    Ewe    Few   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crow    pilot    personnel    squadron    technician    commander    crewman    troop    sailor    aircraft