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单词 navigant
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navigantn.

Forms: 1500s nauigant, 1500s navigant.
Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French navigant, naviguer; Latin nāvigant-, nāvigāns, nāvigāre.
Etymology: Probably partly < Middle French navigant navigator, seafarer (late 15th cent.), use as noun of present participle of naviguer (see navigate v.), and partly < classical Latin nāvigant-, nāvigāns seafarer, use as noun of present participle of nāvigāre navigate v.
Obsolete. rare.
A navigator; a seafarer, a voyager.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > [noun]
sailera1400
naviganta1527
sea-voyager1622
voyager1622
a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. B2 v Which thing is a great commoditie for the nauigants.
1553 S. Cabot in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 260 To be obtained..by humble and heartie prayer of the Nauigants.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. f. 266 v This land is new Guinea, so called of the Nauigants and Pilots.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

navigantadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin nāvigant-, nāvigāns, nāvigāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin nāvigant-, nāvigāns, present participle of nāvigāre navigate v.
Obsolete. rare.
Voyaging (figurative in quots.).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [adjective] > seafaring
seafaringc1200
sea-trod?1624
navigantc1680
seagoing1855
c1680 in J. Smith Life, Jrnls. & Corr. S. Pepys (1841) II. 203 The Church of England is worthy of your best services, and..needs them. It has been too long navigant in a valley of tears.
1781 H. Walpole Let. to W. Cole 7 July The church navigant would be an extension of its power.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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