What does mariners mean?
A mariner is a sailor, especially a professional one – a person whose job it is to work as a member of the crew. The word sailor is used much more commonly than mariner, which usually sounds formal.
Mariner is a somewhat old-fashioned word for a sailor or seafarer, a person who spends most of their working life on some kind of ocean vessel.
Mariner is sometimes used as a more poetic word for sailor.
What is a mariner?
According to Collins Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a mariner is a sailor, or a person who navigates or assists in navigating a ship.
What does the word Mariner most likely mean? The word “mariner” has been connected with this use in literature since 1798 (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem.
In our days, you’re more likely to read about mariners in an old book than to meet people who describes themselves this way.
Mariner comes from the Latin word marinus, “of the sea,” and its root, mare, “the sea.”
What is the synonym of Mariner?
According to Princeton’s WordNet, the best synonyms for mariner include:
- captain
- navigator
- sailor
- seafarer
- seaman