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mariner

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who navigates or assists in navigating a ship.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A. Tasmanian name for the bronze-colored shell of any one of several species of the marine gastropod Elenchus, especially E. bellulus. Also called warrener, and pearly necklace shell.
  • noun A seaman or sailor; one who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship. In law the term also includes a servant on a ship.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.
  • noun See under Compass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A sailor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a man who serves as a sailor

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French marinier, from marin, marine; see marine.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Anglo-Norman mariner, marinier, from Old French marinier, maronnier, from post-classical Latin marinarius ("sailor"), from marīnus.

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Examples

  • Furthermore, this mariner is not going to Sydney, thank you.

    Chapter 9 2010

  • Furthermore, this mariner is not going to Sydney, thank you.

    As Between A Man and A Woman 1911

  • For hours he played on indefatigably, repeating his whole repertory of Frankish discords at least a score of times, and telling all who asked that he had acquired his skill in foreign music by instruction from the greatest living master of the art -- a certain English mariner named William.

    The Valley of the Kings Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

  • The skill of a mariner is seen in a storm, and, in the distress of the ship, then is the proper time for him to exert himself.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • For nearly a century has he figured in the legends of the prairie "mariner" -- a counterpart of the Flying

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • But we have to seek the great westerly winds well south of the Cape, and that for a mariner is a far harder task.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • But we have to seek the great westerly winds well south of the Cape, and that for a mariner is a far harder task.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • This is the most natural and the most accurate measure of time for the navigator at sea and the unit of time adopted by the mariner is the apparent solar day.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • Since it was foul, we looked to you, who are called a mariner, to do so.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • His senses responded only to the sonorous music of the woods; a steadfast wind ringing metallic melody from the pine-tops contented him as the sound of the sea does the sailor; and dear as the odors of the ocean to the mariner were the resinous scents of the forest to him.

    A Mountain Woman 1896

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