first mate

1. 1.

   the officer below the master on a commercial ship

   Synonymsmate

   Broaderofficer

Questions about first mate

What does first mate mean?

first mate means "the officer below the master on a commercial ship".

What is another word for first mate?

Close synonyms include mate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is first mate a common word?

first mate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.