"messmate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mess + mate.",
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      "form": "messmates",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, H.M.S. Pinafore; […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "Messmates, ahoy! Come here! Come here!",
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        },
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          "ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The cap’n was displeased at that, but my messmates were all of a mind and landed.",
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        "An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship."
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          "mess",
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          "ship",
          "ship"
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        "(nautical) An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship."
      ],
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          "roman": "sǎtrapeznik",
          "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
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          "word": "сътрапезник"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
          "word": "messitoveri"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
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          "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Tischgenosse"
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          "english": "but none is specifically nautical",
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          "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Mitesser"
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          "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
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          "word": "mässkamrat"
        }
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        "(Australia) Any of various eucalypts with rough bark, specifically Eucalyptus obliqua."
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  "etymology_text": "From mess + mate.",
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          "text": "The cap’n was displeased at that, but my messmates were all of a mind and landed.",
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        "An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship."
      ],
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          "associate",
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          "mess",
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          "ship",
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        "(nautical) An associate with whom one shares a mess (eating place) on a ship."
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "sǎtrapeznik",
      "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сътрапезник"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
      "word": "messitoveri"
    },
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
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      "word": "Tischgenosse"
    },
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      "english": "but none is specifically nautical",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Mitesser"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "comensal"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an associate with whom one shares a mess",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "mässkamrat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "messmate"
}