MARITIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maritime mean? 

• MARITIME (adjective)
  The adjective MARITIME has 2 senses:

1. relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen

2. bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea

  Familiarity information: MARITIME used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARITIME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

marine; maritime; nautical

Context example:

marine insurance

Pertainym:

navigation (ship traffic)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bordering on or living or characteristic of those near the sea

Context example:

maritime cultures

Similar:

coastal (located on or near or bordering on a coast)

 Context examples 

All of this evidence suggests that the tumour was spread by sea-faring dogs, transported through maritime activities.

(The curious tale of the cancer ‘parasite’ that sailed the seas, University of Cambridge)

In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And it must be confessed, that from the great intercourse of trade and commerce between both realms, from the continual reception of exiles which is mutual among them, and from the custom, in each empire, to send their young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to polish themselves by seeing the world, and understanding men and manners; there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both tongues; as I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to the emperor of Blefuscu, which, in the midst of great misfortunes, through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy adventure to me, as I shall relate in its proper place.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

During 2017’s Hurricane Irma, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that a simultaneous space weather event brought down radio communications used by first responders, aviation and maritime channels for eight hours on the day the hurricane made landfall.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)