Home › Words › P › pewmatepewmatepewmate means one who shares the same pew.EtymologyFrom pew + -mate.nounOne who shares the same pew.e.g.“We’ll have to prod our snoozing pewmates when to sit and stand; they’ll have to rein in their zealots.” — 2007 July 29, Lawrence Downes, “The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).