SEAFARER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seafarer mean? 

• SEAFARER (noun)
  The noun SEAFARER has 1 sense:

1. a man who serves as a sailor

  Familiarity information: SEAFARER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEAFARER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who serves as a sailor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar

Hypernyms ("seafarer" is a kind of...):

crewman; sailor (any member of a ship's crew)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seafarer"):

able-bodied seaman; able seaman (a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills)

bo's'n; bo'sun; boatswain; bos'n; bosun (a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen)

deckhand; roustabout (a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor)

helmsman; steerer; steersman (the person who steers a ship)

bargee; bargeman; lighterman (someone who operates a barge)

officer; ship's officer (a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)

pilot (a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor)

sea lawyer (an argumentative and contentious seaman)

whaler (a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales)

 Context examples 

When you think that in the last year of the war we had 140,000 seamen and mariners afloat, commanded by 4000 officers, and that half of these had been turned adrift when the Peace of Amiens laid their ships up in the Hamoaze or Portsdown creek, you will understand that London, as well as the dockyard towns, was full of seafarers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)