maritime.

Connected with the sea, sea travel, or places shaped by proximity to the sea.

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Words that belong together

• maritime city
• maritime trade

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The maritime city counted time by arrivals rather than seasons.

Maritime trade had filled the warehouses and emptied the inland roads.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Normally non-gradable in the spatial or relational classification; figurative comparisons require a meaningful context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.