crew
English
/kɹuː/
noun
Definitions
- A group of people together
- A person in a crew
- (sports) The sport of competitive rowing.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French creue (military reinforcement, an increase, recruit) derived from Latin crescere, cresco (grow, arise).
Origin
Latin
crescere, cresco
Gloss
grow, arise
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- air English
- aircrew English
- aircrewman English
- crewable English
- crewer English
- crewless English
- crewlessness English
- crewman English
- crewmate English
- crewmember English
- crewneck English
- crewnecked English
- crewperson English
- crewwoman English
- cybercrew English
- ground English
- groundcrew English
- hand English
- handcrew English
- mate English
- member English
- multicrew English
- neck English
- person English
- recrew English
- road English
- roadcrew English
- train English
- traincrew English
- woman English
- crescere, cresco Latin
- クルー Japanese
- creue Old French
- criw Welsh
- kūro Marshallese
- kūru Marshallese