English Explanatory Dictionary

crew

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A group of people together
  2. Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
  3. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
  4. A group of people working together on a task.
  5. The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
  6. A close group of friends.
  7. A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
  8. A group of Rovers.
  9. A hip-hop or b-boying group.
  10. A rowing team manning a single shell.
  11. A person in a crew
  12. A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
verb
  1. To be a member of a vessel's crew.
  2. To be a member of a work or production crew.
  3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew.
  4. To do the proper work of a sailor.
  5. To take on, recruit (new) crew.
verb
  1. simple past of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
noun
  1. A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
noun
  1. The Manx shearwater.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of cry
name
  1. A habitational surname from Welsh.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  4. A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
noun
  1. Acronym of continuous review, evaluation, and weeding.
name
  1. Acronym of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Pronunciation

kroo͞ /kɹuː/ [kɹuʊ̯] /kɹu/ En-us-crew.ogg

Word forms

crew crews crewing crewed

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti Latin crēscere Old French creistre Old French creuebor. Middle English crue English crew From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).

Synonyms

ship's company all hands complement staff stagehands clique gang pack crowd bunch lot posse member crewmember nautical only: sailor seaman team flock band group crewer

Derived words

aircrew air crew crewable crew cab crew chief crew cut crewdate crew date crewless crewman crewmate crewneck crew neck crewperson crew resource management crew-served crew-served weapon crew sock crewwoman cybercrew groundcrew handcrew multicrew recrew roadcrew stage crew traincrew youth crew crewer uncrewed crew up crewyard Crews Hill
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