Seafaring
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act, process, or practice of travelling the seas, such as by sailing or steaming.
- 2 travel by water wordnet
- 3 The work or calling of a seafarer, especially a sailor.
- 4 the work of a sailor wordnet
- 1 Living one's life at sea.
"There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a seafaring race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above."
- 2 Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing.
"A rowing boat is not a seafaring craft."
- 1 used on the high seas wordnet
Example
More examples"There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a seafaring race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above."
Etymology
From Middle English safarinde, see farand, se farinde, equivalent to sea + faring (“travelling; journeying; going”). Compare Old English sǣ-līþende (“seafaring”). Cognate with Dutch zeevarend (“seafaring”), German Low German seefahrend (“seafaring”), German seefahrend (“seafaring”), Danish søfarende (“seafaring”), Swedish sjöfarande (“seafaring”).
From sea + faring.
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