Sailor

Word SAILOR
Character 6
Hyphenation sail or
Pronunciations /ˈseɪlə/

Definitions and meanings of "Sailor"

What do we mean by sailor?

One who serves in a navy or works on a ship. noun

One who travels by water. noun

A low-crowned straw hat with a flat top and flat brim. noun

One who sails; a seaman; a mariner; one of the crew of a ship or vessel. noun

Synonyms Sailor, Seaman, Mariner. To most landsmen any one who leads a seafaring life is a sailor. Nelson was a great sailor. Technically, sailor applies only to the men before the mast. To a landsman seaman seems a business term for a sailor; technically, seaman includes sailors and petty officers. Mariner is an elevated, poetic, or quaint term for a seaman; shipman is a still older term. The technical use of mariner is now restricted to legal documents. There is no present distinction in name between the men in the navy and those in the merchant marine. noun

One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. noun

A species of grunt (Orthopristis chrysopterus syn. Pomadasys chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish. noun

One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. noun

A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown noun

A serviceman in the navy noun

Any member of a ship's crew noun

A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels

Someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships.

A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.

A person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sailor

The word "sailor" in example sentences

They knew that drink -- and drink with a sailor is always excessive -- made them mad, but only mildly mad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He added, This sailor is a veritable storehouse of information of all kinds, as he reads and retains everything that comes through. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And by "sailor" is meant, not the average efficient and hopeless creature who is found to-day in the forecastle of deepwater ships, but the man who will take a fabric compounded of wood and iron and rope and canvas and compel it to obey his will on the surface of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And by "sailor" is meant, not the average inefficient and hopeless creature who is found to-day in the forecastles of deepwater ships, but the man who will take a fabric compounded of wood and iron and rope and canvas and compel it to obey his will on the surface of the sea. ❋ Unknown (1912)

While he devoted more and more of his time to the plantation itself, she took over the house and its multitudinous affairs; and she took hold firmly, in sailor fashion, revolutionizing the system and discipline. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A rainbow sweater, dirty and the worse for wear, clung loosely to his broad shoulders, and a red cotton handkerchief was knotted in sailor fashion about his throat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I could never cease to marvel, when the rain beat on that roof, that no less than a king's ransom in the London fur market protected a castaway sailor from the elements. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Barring captains and mates of big ships, the small-boat sailor is the real sailor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

_________ I think what is being said is that other countries refer to their sailors in some form of the word "marine" as they do not have a distinct separate branch that differentiates a sailor from a marine as in the US military. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On Sunday, China and Japan seemed to be edging past their worst dispute in five years, as Japanese leaders called for "mutually beneficial" ties after China thanked Japan's military for evacuating a sick Chinese sailor from a ship in the Pacific on Saturday. ❋ Jeremy Page (2010)

Where some strapping young sailor is game for a little of the old matelotage -- a dash of rum, sodomy and the lash -- we're not going to refrain simply because happenstance finds us in a nation or era with rules against such things. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

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