Synonyms: sailor, or woman">seaman or woman, sea dog, seafarer More Synonyms of mariner
mariner in British English
(ˈmærɪnə)
noun
a formal or literary word for seaman
Word origin
C13: from Anglo-French, ultimately from Latin marīnusmarine
Mariner in British English
(ˈmærɪnə)
noun
any of a series of US space probes launched between 1962 and 1971 that sent back photographs and information concerning the surface of Mars and Venus and also studied interplanetary matter
mariner in American English
(ˈmærənər)
noun
a sailor; seaman
Word origin
ME marinere < Anglo-Fr mariner (OFr marinier) < ML marinarius < L marinus, marine
Examples of 'mariner' in a sentence
mariner
His mariner 's charts, his life jackets, his compass, his flares, his inflatable life raft: all of it went.
Clive Barker GALILEE (2001)
The senior man, grey-bearded and once a master mariner himself, pulled down a register of ships" names and scanned through the C section.
Lunnon-Wood, Mike LET NOT THE DEEP (2001)
(noun)
Definition
a sailor
He has the weatherbeaten face of a mariner.
Synonyms
sailor
A navy spokesman said one sailor is still missing.
or woman">seaman or woman
The men emigrate to work as seamen.
sea dog
seafarer
hand
salt
‘Did he look like an old sea salt?’ I asked, laughing.