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# seafarer

noun (a seafarer, seafarers); adjective (seafaring)

«seafarer» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A person who travels by sea, especially a sailor whose life and job is at sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/#m1)

### In the lessons

In history lessons, the Vikings, Phoenicians and Polynesians were great seafarers who crossed oceans. In The Wind in the Willows, the chapter «Wayfarers All» introduces the Sea Rat, a seafarer who tells Ratty wonderful stories of ports around the Mediterranean, and Ratty nearly leaves home to follow him. Phrase: «a seafaring nation», «seafaring life».

### Examples

- The Sea Rat was a seafarer who had sailed to many ports. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/#x1)
- The Phoenicians were brave seafarers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/#x2)
- Seafarers once used the stars to find their way. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/#x3)
- My great-grandfather was a seafarer all his life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/#x4)
- Polynesian seafarers sailed canoes across the Pacific. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/#x5)
- The seafarer told tales of storms and strange lands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Built like wayfarer (a traveller on foot): sea + farer (from old «fare», to travel). Similar: sailor, mariner, seaman.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «seafarer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafarer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«seafarer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/seafarer.html) on Mova free.