MEANING
Involving travel or work at sea; as a noun, the activity of going to sea.
Use it for
describing a life spent aboard ships; characterizing a community shaped by sea travel; linking traditions to maritime work and voyagesConnects people, traditions, and livelihoods to travel or work at sea. Writing functions: Life and work at sea.
Words that belong together
- a seafaring life
- a seafaring nation
- seafaring traditions
On the page
The village’s seafaring traditions survived long after its last shipyard closed.
Seafaring had taught him to read a change in the weather before dawn.
Word forms
- Base
- seafaring
Usage notes
Usually attributive adjective: seafaring people, a seafaring life. Also an uncountable activity noun. No ordinary comparative or plural. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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