What is another word for Sailor?
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seaman, person who travels by sea
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salt, person who travels by sea
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mariner, person who travels by sea
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person who travels by sea
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person who travels by sea, person
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- boater
- cadet
- diver
- marine
- pilot
- bluejacket
- jack
- lascar
- mariner
- mate
- middy
- navigator
- pirate
- salt
- seafarer
- shipmate
- swab
- tar
- tarpaulin
- windjammer
- able-bodied sailor
- circumnavigator
- deck hand
- hearty
- midshipman/woman
- old salt
- sea dog
- sea person
- shellback
- swabber
- swabbie
- water dog
- yachter
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The Goblin stared about him in a dazed manner for a moment, and then said, «Sindbad the Sailor‘s house.»
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WORDS RELATED TO SAILOR
- Panama
- Stetson
- boater
- bonnet
- bowler
- bucket
- chapeau
- fedora
- headgear
- headpiece
- helmet
- lid
- millinery
- sailor
- skimmer
- sombrero
- stove pipe
- straw
- tam
- tam o’shanter
- ten-gallon
- topper
- bluejacket
- captain
- crew
- mate
- navigator
- sailor
- salt
- sea dog
- seafarer
- shipmate
- swab
- yachtie
- bluejackets
- captains
- crews
- mates
- navigators
- sailors
- salts
- sea dogs
- seafarers
- shipmates
- swabs
- yachties
- GI
- enlisted person
- first-class
- infantry
- private soldier
- sailor
- second-class
- soldier
- GI
- apprentice
- beginner
- convert
- draftee
- enlisted person
- fledgling
- greenhorn
- helper
- initiate
- learner
- neophyte
- new person
- newcomer
- novice
- novitiate
- plebe
- proselyte
- rookie
- sailor
- selectee
- serviceperson
- soldier
- tenderfoot
- trainee
- volunteer
- barnacle-back
- mariner
- master mariner
- old salt
- old sea dog
- sailor
- seafarer
- shellback
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What is another word for sailor?
281 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ sˈe͡ɪlə], [ sˈeɪlə], [ s_ˈeɪ_l_ə]
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- buccaneer,
- company,
- pirate,
- crew,
- bosun,
- docker,
- cap’n,
- hearty.
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- marine,
- gob.
• crewman (noun)
- crewman.
• hat (noun)
- head-gear,
- head-gears,
- chapeaus,
- ten gallon,
- ten-gallons,
- stove pipes,
- tam o’shanters,
- millineries,
- tengallons,
- tam oshanters,
- headgears,
- head-piece,
- head-pieces,
- head gears,
- tengallon,
- tam oshanter,
- ten gallons,
- head pieces.
• leghorn (noun)
- leghorn.
• mariner (noun)
- yachties.
• navy man (noun)
- navy man.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- mariner,
- midshipman,
- tam,
- shipmates,
- head piece,
- headpieces,
- beachcomber,
- ten-gallon,
- person,
- lid,
- Midshipmen,
- skimmer,
- bluejacket,
- serviceman,
- hat,
- boaters,
- private,
- soldier,
- military man,
- headpiece,
- tam o’shanter,
- Cockswain,
- headgear,
- skilled workman,
- Peggy,
- shipmate,
- skilled worker,
- sombreros,
- Tars,
- sea dog,
- chapeaux,
- recruit,
- Head gear,
- bluejackets,
- seaman,
- man,
- Middies,
- merman,
- millinery,
- bowler,
- chapeau,
- beachcombers,
- tar,
- Jacky,
- sea,
- Jackies,
- middy,
- skimmers,
- boater,
- TAMS,
- trained worker,
- panamas,
- sombrero,
- traveler,
- military personnel,
- Mermen,
- bowlers,
- yachtie.
• person who travels by sea (noun)
- able-bodied sailor,
- pilot,
- deck hand,
- navigator,
- salt,
- mate.
• private (noun)
- second class,
- GIS,
- second-class,
- first class,
- firstclass,
- private soldier,
- enlisted person.
• recruit (noun)
- trainee,
- serviceperson,
- draftees,
- draftee,
- selectee,
- plebes,
- new person,
- selectees,
- servicepeople,
- plebe.
• sailor (noun)
- captain,
- yeoman,
- gondolier,
- boatman,
- steersman,
- ferryman,
- barge-man,
- helmsman,
- ship man,
- boatswain.
• sea dog (noun)
- shellbacks,
- master mariner,
- barnacle-back,
- old sea dog,
- old salts.
• seaman (noun)
- mid shipman,
- mid-shipman,
- mid shipmen,
- mid-shipmen,
- cockswains.
• traveler (noun)
- hiker,
- voyagers,
- nomad,
- trouper,
- floaters,
- troupers,
- Expeditionist,
- junketers,
- barnstormer,
- junketer,
- roamer,
- journeyers,
- trekkers,
- roamers,
- ramblers,
- hikers,
- jet setter,
- haj,
- rambler,
- gadabout,
- globetrotter,
- itinerants,
- barnstormers.
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Other synonyms:
• Panama
- panama.
• Panama hat
- panama hat.
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- seafarer,
- jack-tar.
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- jack.
• angler
- fisherman.
• gondolier
- oarsman.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- delivery,
- tarpaulin,
- able-bodied seaman,
- skipper,
- alpinist,
- straw hat,
- palmer,
- lord of misrule,
- pitch,
- mountaineer,
- Brusher,
- rubberneck,
- longshoreman,
- trekker,
- crafter,
- ordinary seaman,
- floater,
- water dog,
- camper,
- explorer,
- visiting fireman,
- able seaman,
- Yachtsmen,
- pathfinder,
- pilgrim,
- world traveler,
- mover,
- Voyageur,
- journeyer,
- crosser,
- sailor boy,
- voortrekker,
- goer,
- fare,
- Jibber,
- spanner,
- astronaut,
- tripper,
- shipper,
- quack,
- trailblazer,
- tourer,
- pioneer,
- hand,
- bargeman,
- climber,
- paddler,
- sightseer,
- rubbernecker,
- rake,
- canvasser,
- drifter,
- waterman,
- voyager,
- limey,
- globe-trotter,
- wayfarer,
- Embroiler,
- bitumen,
- sea person,
- yachtswoman,
- Shipman,
- pungent,
- jolly,
- jet-setter,
- adventurer,
- matelot,
- lighterman,
- traverser,
- cosmopolite,
- lascar,
- swabbie,
- deceiver,
- Swabber,
- cap,
- whaler,
- cruiser,
- lobsterman,
- sea rover,
- coxswain,
- oar,
- passenger,
- deck-hand,
- Circumnavigator,
- excursionist,
- rating,
- coaster,
- Viator,
- privateer,
- trap,
- Yachter,
- old salt,
- yachtsman,
- neptune,
- faster,
- planer,
- starter,
- trailbreaker,
- straphanger,
- hole,
- transient,
- cadet,
- crew member,
- rower,
- hajji,
- windjammer,
- commuter,
- maw,
- bargee,
- lurch,
- shellback,
- Boatwoman,
- viking,
- swab,
- diver,
- passerby,
- tourist,
- sheeter.
How to use «Sailor» in context?
In the world of sailing, a sailor is someone who uses a boat to travel across the water. Sailing vessels have various names and during different times, have been used for different purposes. However, today, sailors use sailboats for recreation and for competition. Additionally, sailors are important in maritime transportation, as they are responsible for the safety of boat crews and cargo.
Paraphrases for Sailor:
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Proper noun, singular
seaman, seamen.
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Noun, singular or mass
crewman, seaman, seamen, crewmen.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Foreign word
deckhand.
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Proper noun, singular
seafarers.
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Noun, singular or mass
navigator, seafarer.
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Foreign word
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
browser, saltwater, servicemen, marittimo.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Adjective
marine.
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Proper noun, singular
marine.
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Noun, singular or mass
deckhand, marine, mate.
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Adjective
Homophones for Sailor:
- school year, solar, Sailer, salary, seller, scullery, sclera, selar, slayer, slur, shoe collar, squealer, shalwar, saylor, seyller, solar year, sealer, slurry, scaler, soilure, scholar, scalar, secular, schiller, solar array, sheller, sculler, salwar, squalor, Seyler, sayler, sea lawyer.
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allurement,
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catalyst,
come-on,
consideration,
determinant,
drive,
encouragement,
enticement.
Nearby words
- sailing-race
- sailing-yacht
- sailings
- sailmaker
- sailmakers
- Sailor
- ‘s Gravenhage
- (somewhere) in the middle
- S
- s & l
- s & ls
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sailor, crewmannoun
any member of a ship’s crew
Synonyms:
boater, straw hat, crew member, navy man, sailor boy, crewman, skimmer, bluejacket, leghorn -
bluejacket, navy man, sailor, sailor boynoun
a serviceman in the navy
Synonyms:
boater, sailor boy, navy man, crewman, straw hat, skimmer, bluejacket, leghorn -
boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hatnoun
a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
Synonyms:
straw hat, waterman, leghorn, boater, boatman, crewman, navy man, skimmer, bluejacket, sailor boy
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How to use sailor in a sentence?
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R. W. Plagge:
Money mad. My wife says I spend money like a drunken sailor. Wonder what she’d say if I spent it like a sober congressman
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Donald Trump:
Together you are the tip of the spear, the edge of the blade and the front of the shield defending and protecting our great country, you know there is no mission our pilots can’t handle. There is no hill our marines can’t take and there is no stronghold the SEALs can’t breach. There is no sea the Navy can’t brave and there is no storm the American sailor can’t conquer. You know that together there is nothing Americans can’t do. Absolutely nothing.
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Leon Tec:
A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
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Olafur Eliasson:
One of the main sources of inspiration was for me my childhood in Iceland where the harbor,… where I spent a lot of time as my father was a sailor, sometimes filled up with boats so you could cross the harbor by going from one deck to the next.
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Winston Churchill:
Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears.
Translations for sailor
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- بحارArabic
- матросBelarusian
- морякBulgarian
- martolodBreton
- maríCatalan, Valencian
- námořníkCzech
- morwrWelsh
- matrosDanish
- Seemann, MatroseGerman
- ναυτικός, ναύτηςGreek
- maristino, maristoEsperanto
- marineroSpanish
- ملاحPersian
- matruusi, merimiesFinnish
- sjómaðurFaroese
- matelot, marinFrench
- loingear, seòladair, maraiche, muireachScottish Gaelic
- mariñeiroGalician
- marrinaghManx
- מלחHebrew
- matróz, hajós, tengerészHungarian
- նավաստիArmenian
- sjóari, sjómaðurIcelandic
- navigante, marinaio, marittimoItalian
- 船員, 船乗り, セーラー, 水夫, 水兵Japanese
- მეზღვაურიGeorgian
- កម្មករនាវាKhmer
- 선원, 수병Korean
- nautaLatin
- jūreivė, jūreivisLithuanian
- kuģiniece, kuģinieks, jūrniece, jūrnieksLatvian
- hēramana, kaumoanaMāori
- kelasi, anak kapalMalay
- baħriMaltese
- matroosDutch
- seiler, sjømann, matrosNorwegian
- chʼah łigai, táłkááʼ siláoNavajo, Navaho
- ନାବିକOriya
- marynarz, żeglarzPolish
- marinheiro, marujoPortuguese
- marinar, matroz, matelotRomanian
- матрос, морякRussian
- سيلانيSindhi
- морнар, mornarSerbo-Croatian
- námornikSlovak
- sjöman, matrosSwedish
- bahariaSwahili
- నావికుడుTelugu
- bahhar, seylani, mellah, bahriyeliTurkish
- матросUkrainian
- نااختUrdu
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hearty (informal) Jack Tar, lascar, leatherneck (slang) marine, mariner, matelot (slang, chiefly Brit.) navigator, salt, sea dog, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, tar (informal)
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( sailors plural ) A sailor is someone who works on a ship or sails a boat. n-count
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Definition of sailor
as in mariner
one who operates or navigates a seagoing vessel
the sailors were glad to be arriving in port after their long voyage
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When the sailor withdrew his hand and looked at the piece of money within, he dropped fainting to the bottom of the boat.
At length, obliged to beat a retreat before superior numbers, they formed an intrenchment behind the large table, which they raised by main force; whilst the two others, arming themselves each with a trestle, and using it like a great sledge-hammer, knocked down at a blow eight sailors upon whose heads they had brought their monstrous catapult in play.
«I almost hesitated, though,» replied the sailor; «you looked more like a brigand than an honest man, with your beard six inches, and your hair a foot long.» Dantes recollected that his hair and beard had not been cut all the time he was at the Chateau d’If.
Round the room people were sitting at table, here half a dozen sailors uproariously drunk, there a group of soldiers; and in the middle, crowded together, couples were dancing.
This old woman, the sailor afterwards said, was the wife of an aged king of a small island valley, communicating by a deep pass with the country of the Typees.
He saw his visions of wealth rapidly dissipating before the weapons of the sailors.
«Well, captain, look yourself,» said the sailor. And he passed him the glass.
Translated, it was a warning to the Claytons to refrain from reporting the loss of the revolvers, or from repeating what the old sailor had told them—to refrain on pain of death.
«What do you think of all this?» said Athos, in a low tone to D’Artagnan, after explaining to him in French what the sailor had said in English.
«Well?» he said—«and why did you follow the sailor?»
The entire ship’s crew were undergoing a nervous excitement, of which I can give no idea: they could not eat, they could not sleep—twenty times a day, a misconception or an optical illusion of some sailor seated on the taffrail, would cause dreadful perspirations, and these emotions, twenty times repeated, kept us in a state of excitement so violent that a reaction was unavoidable.
Would I take Scotty, the runaway sailor, to visit the harpooner, on the opium- smuggler Idler?
A sailor who had approached to listen to the conversation vouchsafed the information that a moment before as he had been about to enter the «pub» he had seen two men leaving it who walked toward the wharf.
A ship may have left her port some time before; she may have been at sea, in the fullest sense of the phrase, for days; but, for all that, as long as the coast she was about to leave remained in sight, a southern-going ship of yesterday had not in the sailor‘s sense begun the enterprise of a passage.
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