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Definition of Seafarer

1. Noun. A man who serves as a sailor.

Definition of Seafarer

1. n. One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

Definition of Seafarer

1. Noun. A sailor or mariner. ¹

2. Noun. One who travels by sea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seafarer

1. a sailor [n -S] - See also: sailor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seafarer

Literary usage of Seafarer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"One of the finest of these old poems, " The seafarer," in the Exeter Book, ... Building an allegory upon our seafarer. English desire towards the sea, ..."

2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1888)
"One of the finest of these old poems, " The seafarer," in the Exeter Book, is thus made difficult by faults in the Tht transmission. ..."

3. On Anglo-Saxon Versification from the Standpoint of Modern-English Versification by Edwin Boinest Setzler (1904)
"Another reason for selecting these poems for analysis is that the three shorter ones—the Wanderer, the seafarer, and the Battle of Maldon—are found in most ..."

4. On Anglo-Saxon Versification from the Standpoint of Modern-English Versification by Edwin Boinest Setzler (1904)
"Another reason for selecting these poems for analysis is that the three shorter ones—the Wanderer, the seafarer, and the Battle of Maldon—are found in most ..."

5. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... The Christ — The Lives of Saints — Other sacred poems — Secular poems—The Ruin — The Wanderer and seafarer. IT would seem likely that the ..."

6. Old English Poems: Translated Into the Original Meter, Together with Short by Cosette Faust Newton, Stith Thompson (1918)
"... as it were, by drawing a parallel between the seafarer's ... the part tees sight of the seafarer aad his ..."

7. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... Judith — The Christ — The Lives of Saints — Other sacred poems — Secular poems — The Ruin — The Wanderer and seafarer. ..."

8. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1906)
"THE "seafarer," another song found in the Exeter book, is probably of Christian origin, and hence later than the "Traveler's Song. ..."

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