first mate

English

Noun

first mate (plural first mates)

1. 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:

  Cantonese: 大偈 (daai⁶ gai²)

  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