Sailor

//ˈseɪ.lɚ//

Synonyms for "sailor" (124 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (25)

Strong matches (37)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

14 relation types

More general

7 entries

chapeau hat lid military personnel person skilled worker trained worker

More specific

70 entries

abab able-bodied seaman admiral bargeman bargewoman bluejacket boardsman boater boatman boatsman boatswain bosun bowsman cabin boy captain chief mate

Showing 16 of 70 words.

Synonyms

4 entries

bluejacket boater sea dog seaman

Related terms

3 entries

Appendix:Glossary of nautical terms lascar oarsman

capable of

28 entries

board ship board submarine board whale boat box compass captain ship coming home dance hornpipe lower flag man battlestations man deck man life raft man submarine row boat sail across sea sail boat sail seven seas

Showing 16 of 28 words.

coordinate

1 entries

yachtsman

derived

37 entries

a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor blue sailor boardsailor by-the-wind sailor curse like a sailor daysailor mouth of a sailor nonsailor paper sailor parasailor ragged sailor rosewater sailor roving sailor sailor collar sailor dive sailor fuku

Showing 16 of 37 words.

derived from

1 entries

sail

desires

1 entries

wind

etymologically related_to

2 entries

sail sailer

holonym

4 entries

all hands crew lower deck ship's company

is a

3 entries

person skilled worker worker

not desires

1 entries

hole in boat

related to

7 entries

lascar mariner recreation sail sailing boat sport yachtsman

Translations

288 translations across 119 languages.

Afar

1 entries

doniki num noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Akkadian

1 entries

𒈣𒁻 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Albanian

3 entries

detar noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
lundërtar noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marinar noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

ναυτίλος noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ναύτης noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Arabic

4 entries

بَحَّار noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
بَحْرِيّ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
مَلَّاح noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
نَوْتِيّ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Aramaic

4 entries

מַלָּחָא noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
נַוְטָא noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ܡܠܚܐ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ܢܘܛܐ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Armenian

2 entries

նավազ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
նավաստի noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Assamese

1 entries

নাৱিক noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Asturian

2 entries

marineru noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marín noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

dənizçi noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Belarusian

3 entries

мара́к noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
марапла́вец noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
матро́с noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Bengali

2 entries

নাবিক noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
মাল্লা noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Breton

1 entries

martolod noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Bulgarian

3 entries

матро́с noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
морепла́вател noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
моря́к noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Burmese

2 entries

ခလာသီ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
သင်္ဘောသား noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Catalan

3 entries

mariner noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marinera noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marí noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Chinese

3 entries

фишу noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
水手 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
海員 /海员 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries

水手 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
海員 /海员 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

水手 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
海員 /海员 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Chukchi

2 entries

аӈӄаляйвыльын noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
лельутвыткульын noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Czech

3 entries

mariňák noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
mořeplavec noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
námořník noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Danish

3 entries

matros noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
sejler noun (person who sails as a sport)
sømand noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Dutch

2 entries

matroos noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
zeeman noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Early Assamese

1 entries

কাণ্ডাৰ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Egyptian

1 entries

s-qd-d-A30-A1 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Esperanto

2 entries

maristino noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
maristo noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Estonian

2 entries

madrus noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
meremees noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Faroese

1 entries

sjómaður noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Finnish

2 entries

matruusi noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
merimies noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

French

4 entries

femme marin noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
femme matelot noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
femme-marin noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
femme-matelot noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Gagauz

1 entries

denizçi noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Galician

3 entries

mariñeira noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
mariñeiro noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
mariñeiro noun (person who sails as a sport)

Georgian

1 entries

მეზღვაური noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

German

4 entries

Matrose noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
Matrosin noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
Seefrau noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
Seemann noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Greek

2 entries

ναυτικός noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ναύτης noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Gujarati

4 entries

ખલાસી noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
જહાજી noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
નાવિક noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
મલ્લાહ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Hawaiian

2 entries

holomoku noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
kelamoku noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Hebrew

3 entries

יוֹרֵד יָם noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
מַלָּח noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
שַׁיָּט noun (person who sails as a sport)

Hindi

4 entries

केवट noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ख़लासी noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
जहाज़ी noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
नाविक noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Hungarian

4 entries

hajós noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
matróz noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
tengerész noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
vitorlázó noun (person who sails as a sport)

Icelandic

2 entries

sjóari noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
sjómaður noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Ido

1 entries

maristo noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Igbo

1 entries

ọnye n'asọ ụgbọ mmịrị noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Indonesian

3 entries

kelasi noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
pelaut noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
pelayar noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Ingrian

1 entries

merimees noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Iranian Persian

4 entries

بَحْری noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
خَلاشی noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
دَرْیانَوَرْد noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
مَلَوان noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Irish

1 entries

maraí noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Istriot

1 entries

mareîtimo noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Italian

4 entries

marinaia noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marinaio noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marittima noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marittimo noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Japanese

4 entries

セーラー noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
水兵 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
水夫 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
海員 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Kazakh

2 entries

кемеші noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
теңізші noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Khmer

3 entries

កម្មករនាវា noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
នាវិក noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
នាវិកា noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Korean

4 entries

선원 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
수병 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
수부 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
해원 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Kyrgyz

3 entries

деңизчи noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
матрос noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
моряк noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Lao

2 entries

ກະລາສີ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ນາວິກ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Latin

4 entries

marinarius noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marinellus noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
nauta noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
nāvita noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Latvian

4 entries

burātājs noun (person who sails as a sport)
jūrniece noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
jūrnieks noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
kuģiniece noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Ligurian

1 entries

mainâ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Lithuanian

2 entries

jūreivis noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
jūreivė noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Macedonian

2 entries

морепло́вец noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
морнар noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Malagasy

1 entries

baharia noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Malay

4 entries

anak kapal noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
kelasi noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
pelaut noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
pelayar noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Malayalam

1 entries

ഖലാസി noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Maltese

1 entries

baħri noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Manx

1 entries

marrinagh noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Marathi

1 entries

खलाशी noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Middle English

2 entries

mariner noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
schipman noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Mongolian

1 entries

далайчин noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Māori

3 entries

heramana noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
kauhoe noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
kaumoana noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Navajo

2 entries

naʼałʼeełí noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
siláo naʼałʼeełígíí noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Neapolitan

1 entries

marenaro noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Norman

2 entries

frégatîn noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
navidgant noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

deryavan noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

matros noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
segler noun (person who sails as a sport)
seiler noun (person who sails as a sport)
sjømann noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Norwegian Nynorsk

4 entries

matros noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
seglar noun (person who sails as a sport)
siglar noun (person who sails as a sport)
sjømann noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Occitan

1 entries

marinièr noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Odia

1 entries

ନାବିକ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Old Armenian

2 entries

նաւազ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
նաւաստի noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Old East Slavic

1 entries

морꙗнинъ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Old English

1 entries

sċipmann noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Old Galician-Portuguese

1 entries

marinneiro noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

كمیجی noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Palauan

1 entries

chad er a diall noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Pali

1 entries

nāvika noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Pashto

2 entries

ماڼګى noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ملاح noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Matroos noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Polish

4 entries

marynarz noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
żeglarka noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
żeglarka noun (person who sails as a sport)
żeglarz noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Portuguese

2 entries

marinheiro noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marujo noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Punjabi

3 entries

ਜਹਾਜ਼ਰਾਨ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ਜਹਾਜ਼ੀ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ਮਲਾਹ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Romanian

4 entries

marinar noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marinăriță noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
matelot noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
matroz noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Russian

3 entries

матро́с noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
морепла́ватель noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
моря́к noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Saho

1 entries

naakuda noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Sanskrit

1 entries

नाविक noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

loingear noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
maraiche noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
muireach noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
seòladair noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

moreplóvac noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
mòrnār noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
pòmorac noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
мо̀рна̄р noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Sindhi

1 entries

سيلاني noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Slovak

2 entries

moreplavec noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
námornik noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Slovene

2 entries

mornár noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
mornárka noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Spanish

4 entries

grumete noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
lobo de mar noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marinante noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
marinera noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Sumerian

1 entries

𒈣𒁺𒁺 noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Swahili

1 entries

baharia noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Swedish

3 entries

matros noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
seglare noun (person who sails as a sport)
sjöman noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Tajik

4 entries

баҳрчӣ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
баҳрӣ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
дарёнавард noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
маллоҳ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Tamil

1 entries

மாலுமி noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Tarifit

1 entries

abeḥri noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Telugu

1 entries

నావికుడు noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Thai

4 entries

กะลาสี noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ทหารเรือ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
นาวิก noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ลูกเรือ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

boskru noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Turkish

4 entries

denizci noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
gemici noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
kalyoncu noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
mellah noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Turkmen

1 entries

deňizçi noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Ukrainian

3 entries

матро́с noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
морепла́вець noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
моря́к noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Urdu

4 entries

جَہاز ران noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
جَہازی noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
خَلاصی noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
مَلَّاح noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Uyghur

2 entries

دېڭىزچى noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
ماتروس noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Uzbek

2 entries

dengizchi noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
matros noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Vietnamese

2 entries

lính thuỷ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
thuỷ thủ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Volapük

1 entries

melan noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Welsh

1 entries

morwr noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Yiddish

2 entries

שיפֿער noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)
שיפֿערין noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Yoruba

1 entries

atukọ̀ noun (worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner)

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

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A sailor frequently has no time to get his sea legs after leaving port before a battle starts.

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Tom acted the part of a sailor.

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And he calls himself a sailor.

Source: tatoeba (43024)

I am a bad sailor.

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Sailor

Synonyms for "sailor" (124 found)

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Translations

Afar

Akkadian

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Aramaic

Armenian

Assamese

Asturian

Azerbaijani

Belarusian

Bengali

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Chinese

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Chukchi

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Early Assamese

Egyptian

Esperanto

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

Gagauz

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Gujarati

Hawaiian

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ido

Igbo

Indonesian

Ingrian

Iranian Persian

Irish

Istriot

Italian

Japanese

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Kyrgyz

Lao

Latin

Latvian

Ligurian

Lithuanian