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seafaring

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Definition of seafaring

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Living one's life at sea.
    “There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a seafaring race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above.”
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adj

  1. Living one's life at sea.
    “There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a seafaring race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above.”
  2. Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing.
    “A rowing boat is not a seafaring craft.”

noun

  1. The act, process, or practice of travelling the seas, such as by sailing or steaming.
  2. The work or calling of a seafarer, especially a sailor.

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Etymology

From Middle English safarinde, see farand, se farinde, equivalent to sea + faring (“travelling; journeying; going”). Compare Old English sǣ-līþende (“seafaring”). Cognate with Dutch zeevarend (“seafaring”), German Low German seefahrend (“seafaring”), German seefahrend (“seafaring”), Danish søfarende (“seafaring”), Swedish sjöfarande (“seafaring”).

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