Synonyms of seamen

seamen

noun

plural of seaman

as in sailors

one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel

a weathered old seaman who now captains a tour boat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sailors
• mariners
• navigators
• seafarers
• salts
• shipmen
• tars
• swabs
• hearties
• swabbies
• sea dogs
• gobs
• crewmen
• shipmates
• deckhands
• jack-tars
• jacks
• coxswains
• lubbers
• able seamen
• powerboaters
• limeys
• sailboaters
• able-bodied seamen
• lime-juicers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of seamen

These outposts were intended to be manned by British seamen armed with antiaircraft weaponry. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026

The South cried hypocrisy on slavery, given that the seamen of Providence, Rhode Island, played a central role in the Atlantic slave trade. — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

Inspired by Portugal’s traditional and contemporary flavors, Baleia also pays respect to the country’s seamen—generations of fishers, sailors and whalers—who traveled the globe and returned with culinary influence, especially from North Africa, China and the Caribbean. — Jillian Dara, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026

However, the clothing found scattered around the remains was not of the sort usually worn by seamen or officers. — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026

But what the New Yorker writer left behind is some of the finest prose of the 20th century, focusing primarily on the eccentrics, scalawags, seamen, and other denizens of New York’s dank corners. — Air Mail, 2 May 2026

This lead seamen to believe that the bananas had caused the ship to sink, and the superstition continues to stay in effect around docks down South. — Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2026

There are no shortage of headlines about the alarming numbers of soldiers and seamen and Marines being overweight. — Noelle Wiehe, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025