sailor

CEFRA2

/ˈseɪ.lɚ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who works on or travels in a ship.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.

Examples

  • A sailor saw his fellow sailor sink from exhaustion.

  • The rangers decided to go to the sailor's rescue.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. In particular, a member of the crew of a (civilian or military) vessel, as opposed to a captain, admiral, etc.; a mariner; a common seaman.

  2. A person who sails sailing boats (as opposed to boats powered by other means) as a sport or recreation.

  3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

More examples

In context

  • Tom acted the part of a sailor.

  • He's a talented sailor and has spent many years at sea.

  • Mary is a sailor dreaming of northern shores lost galleons on the sea Mary ever on her way

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Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

After months of working on the ocean, the tired blank finally returned to his home port.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -or. Cognate with German Segler (“sailor”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English marinel, marynell (“sailor”) borrowed from Old French marinel (“sailor”). See mariner.