Meaning & use
teammate
A person who belongs to the same team as another, especially in sports or work.
See it in a sentence
She passed the ball to her teammate, who scored just before the final whistle.
His teammates congratulated him on finishing the difficult project ahead of schedule.
A note on using this word
Teammate is written as one word in standard American English, without a hyphen or space.
Words with a similar meaning
colleaguefellow player
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