teammate
Americannoun
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teammates
plural
Other Word Forms
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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He still tries to carve out time on Saturdays to watch his alma mater Penn State and now Virginia Tech, where his former college teammate is now the offensive coordinator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Retired Eagles center Jason Kelce, who played 11 seasons with Johnson, wrote a lengthy tribute to his former teammate on X.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
"I hope so," said Robert Earnshaw, another former Wales teammate of Bellamy and now part of the Match of the Day Wales team with Ledley.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
While he did receive support, he couldn’t anticipate Nate Boyer’s attempts to profit from the protest and steal credit from Kaepernick teammate Eric Reid for the idea to kneel.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
Radio calls my teammate Stuart Hutchison had been monitoring from Rob Hall on the South Summit made clear that our leader was in desperate straits and that Doug Hansen was dead.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Ditka had borne witness to football’s physical and cognitive traumas, in teammates, former players like McMahon and the late Dave Duerson, and himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
That fearless approach instilled confidence and ambition in her teammates, helping the team overcome even the previously unbeatable Australians, most memorably in the semi-final of the 2025 ODI World Cup.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“For most teammates, the work immediately in front of you remains the same,” Hill, Nike’s CEO, wrote in the memo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Erling Haaland and his teammates will be fine, as will the Abu Dhabi royals, although whatever remains of the club’s pre-2008 Mancunian fanbase is likely to suffer bitterly.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
He and his teammates bustled up the front steps and entered the library.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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