first mate

English

Noun

first mate (plural first mates)

1. (nautical) An officer on a merchant ship next in rank to the captain and responsible to the captain for the safety and security of the ship.

Synonyms

• chief officer
• chief mate
• first officer

Translations

nautical: officer next in rank to the captain

Chinese: Mandarin: 大副 (zh) (dàfù) Dutch: eerste stuurman m Finnish: perämies (fi), ensimmäinen perämies, yliperämies (fi) French: second (fr) m, second capitaine m Greek: ύπαρχος (el) m (ýparchos) Irish: ardmháta m, céad mháta m Italian: secondo di bordo m, seconda di bordo f Portuguese: imediato (pt) m Russian: помо́щник капита́на m (pomóščnik kapitána) Spanish: primer oficial de cubierta m, primera oficial de cubierta f Swedish: förste styrman (sv) c Turkish: ikinci kaptan Vietnamese: thuyền phó Welsh: mêt m, mêts m pl

Further reading

• first mate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• first team