mariner
noun
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In Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an old seaman tells of how, by shooting a friendly albatross, he had brought storms and disaster to his ship, and how as punishment his shipmates hung the great seabird around the mariner's neck and made him wear it until it rotted. The word mariner has occasionally been used to mean simply "explorer", as in the famous Mariner spaceflights in the 1960s and '70s, the first to fly close to Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
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C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
Spetses Town House is a classic, robust mariner's house sits on the waterfront, on a quiet edge of the main town beyond Kounoupitsa Beach.
—Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
Following the Key Bridge collapse, those conversations have begun already, said former merchant mariner Sal Mercogliano.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2024
In the 1960s, however, the prevailing academic view of the Genoese mariner became less flattering.
—Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2012
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“Mariner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mariner. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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