as in sailor
one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel in the middle of the vasty deep the shipman enjoys a splendid isolation that the landsman will never know

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Recent Examples of shipman Australian shipmen are going to train with American and British personnel. The Editors, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023 Featuring Dan Whelton as the Irish shipman who falls in love with Anna and Nancy E. Carroll as a woman involved with Anna’s father. BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shipman
Noun
  • Conan Gray’s ‘denim behemoth’ Thick, heavy and water-absorbent — denim is, frankly, a sailor’s nightmare.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Where at one time soldiers and sailors made do with fluttering flags or flashes of light to send simple messages, the modern warfighter is part of a global digital network where data rushes about like water out of a firehose and satellites act as a vital link in that network.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While this may cause some disruptions for those located along the northern shorelines and nearby mariners, land impacts will be to a lesser extent with the current path compared to a direct track into the Big Island.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In their campaign so far, the Houthis have sunk four vessels and killed at least eight mariners.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Christian Braun has matured as a pick-and-roll navigator.
    Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Spain's Casa de Contratación created standardized navigator certification programs—perhaps history's first technical bootcamp.
    Solange Charas, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Shipman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shipman. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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