teammate
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of teammate
Explanation
If you play a game or a sport, anyone on your team is your teammate. During a game of charades, you might silently act out the title of a movie while your teammates try to guess it. All the basketball players on the Los Angeles Sparks are teammates. Doubles tennis players who play together against another pair are also teammates. You can use the word to describe someone who collaborates with you, too, like your teammates at work or a teammate on a school project. The word teammate can be traced back to the Old English team, "family, brood, or company."
Example Sentences
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After the intense finish, Ramos spoke of his late teammate.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2026
His old teammate and now BBC Sport pundit Joe Hart said such "phenomenal" moments allow players to "drop the mask, just for a few minutes, of being an elite professional".
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026
“People were asking the same question when Christian went down,” teammate Chris Richards said, “and the next guy stepped up.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026
She was one of five players assessed technical fouls amid a fourth-quarter dust-up that also involved former teammate DeWanna Bonner.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
“Tonight at five: What would you do if your teammate was tragically injured on the way home from a meet?”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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