SEAMAN

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• SEAMAN (noun)
  The noun SEAMAN has 2 senses:

1. a man who serves as a sailor

2. muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)

  Familiarity information: SEAMAN used as a noun is rare.

• SEAMAN (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 ("seaman" is a kind of...):

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

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

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)

Derivation:

seamanly (characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship)

seamanship (skill in sailing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman; Elizabeth Seaman; Nellie Bly; Seaman

Instance hypernyms:

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

 Context examples 

Still, as I say, it was a boy's game, and I thought I could hold my own at it against an elderly seaman with a wounded thigh.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This Spade-beard is a very noted captain, and it is his boast that there are no seamen and no archers in the world who can compare with those who serve the Doge Boccanegra.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If it were a seaman, it could only be a seaman who had been with him on the Sea Unicorn.

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

The seamen soon knew whence I came last: they were curious to inquire into my voyages and course of life.

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

We think that we shall not have much trouble with officials or the seamen.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For the Ghost, so far as the seamen were concerned, was a hell-ship of the worst description.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The melancholy cleared away from the massive face of the big seaman, and his deep laughter filled the room.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had been in Yarmouth when the seamen said it blew great guns, but I had never known the like of this, or anything approaching to it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then I remembered that Fordingbridge was in Hampshire, and that this Mr. Beddoes, whom the seaman had gone to visit and presumably to blackmail, had also been mentioned as living in Hampshire.

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