seafarer
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Definition of seafarer
: mariner
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Synonyms for seafarer
Synonyms
gob, hearty, jack, jack-tar, mariner, navigator, sailor, salt, sea dog, seaman, shipman, swab, tar
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Kudos to the Carnival Glory team for this amazing effort to rescue a fellow seafarer. — Jajuan M. Morris-guity, Fox News, "Norwegian Cruise employee rescued by Carnival Cruise 22 hours after falling overboard," 3 July 2018 Kudos to the Carnival Glory team for this amazing effort to rescue a fellow seafarer. — Jajuan M. Morris-guity, Fox News, "Norwegian Cruise employee rescued by Carnival Cruise 22 hours after falling overboard," 3 July 2018 Being small and silent, Wave Gliders are unlikely to be spotted by seafarers up to no good, says Gary Gysin, the firm’s boss. — The Economist, "Avast, me hearties," 5 July 2018 Kudos to the Carnival Glory team for this amazing effort to rescue a fellow seafarer. — Jajuan M. Morris-guity, Fox News, "Norwegian Cruise employee rescued by Carnival Cruise 22 hours after falling overboard," 3 July 2018 The finding, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, supports the theory that the first people to populate the Americas were seafarers traveling from island to island. — Anchorage Daily News, "Boulder-size clues to how humans settled the Americas turn up in Southeast Alaska," 1 June 2018 Kudos to the Carnival Glory team for this amazing effort to rescue a fellow seafarer. — USA TODAY, "Miracle at sea: Man plunges from one cruise ship, rescued by another," 2 July 2018 The finding, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, supports the theory that the first people to populate the Americas were seafarers traveling from island to island. — Anchorage Daily News, "Boulder-size clues to how humans settled the Americas turn up in Southeast Alaska," 1 June 2018 But for voyages on which the seafarers took sunstone readings at intervals of 3 hours or less, ships made landfall between 92% and 100% of the time, the researchers report today in Royal Society Open Science. — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, "Viking seafarers may have navigated with legendary crystals," 3 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'seafarer.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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seafarer
noun
English Language Learners Definition of seafarer
: someone who works or travels on a boat or ship on the sea
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