Definition of Seafaring

1. Adjective. Used on the high seas. "Seafaring vessels"

Exact synonyms: Oceangoing, Seagoing
Similar to: Marine

2. Noun. The work of a sailor.

3. Noun. Travel by water.
Exact synonyms: Water Travel
Generic synonyms: Travel, Traveling, Travelling
Specialized synonyms: Ocean Trip, Voyage, Sailing, Boating, Yachting
Examples of category: Shipwreck

Definition of Seafaring

1. a. Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.

Definition of Seafaring

1. Adjective. Following a life at sea. ¹

2. Adjective. Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing. ¹

3. Noun. The work, or calling of a sailor. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seafaring

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seafaring

seacraft
seacrafts
seacunny
seadevil
seadevils
seadog
seadogs
seadragon
seadragons
seadrome
seadromes
seaduck
seaducks
seafarer
seafarers
seafaring (current term)
seafarings
seafloor
seafloor spreading
seafloors
seafoam
seafolk
seafolks
seafood
seafood Newburg
seafood boil
seafood fork
seafood forks
seafood sauce
seafoodie

Literary usage of Seafaring

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

1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"CHAPTER V seafaring and Travel THE GROWTH OF PROFESSIONAL TEXT-BOOKS AND ... In a survey of the written record of the seafaring of the sixteenth and ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"They were seafaring people. The roads to the south were barely passable. The official who carried the post-bags came twice or thrice a week, and the news he ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1834)
"Memoirs of the Rev William Henry Angus, ordained a " Missionary to seafaring Men," May \\th. 1822. By the Rev. FA Cox, LL.D. London : Thos. Heard & Co. ..."

4. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1860)
"... we shall encounter a multitude of seafaring men ; and then looking across the Atlantic to the South American coast, both on its eastern and western ..."

5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"How much service entitles a man to have the name and reputation of a seafaring man ? —As to the reputation of a seafaring man, it is impossible to say what ..."

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