Other forms: crewmen
A crewman is one of the sailors working a ship. A young crewman, the missing crewman, a crewman on deck.
It names one member of the crew, and it is used of aircraft and spacecraft as well as ships. The word is gendered, and crew member is the neutral form now preferred in official writing. Note crew, which takes a singular or plural verb depending on whether you mean the body or the people.
1nouncrewmanOne of the sailors working a ship.
“A crewman fell overboard during the storm but was pulled back aboard.”
crewman is a sailor.
Old French
creue
Middle English
crue
English
crew
English, today
crewman
Built from
From crew + -man. crew comes from Middle English crue, from Old French creue. From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin cresco (“to arise, grow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA