Seafaring Synonyms

sēfârĭng
Used on the high seas
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. naval
  2. oceanic
  3. oceangoing
  4. marine
  5. seagoing
Travel by water
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. water-travel
The work of a sailor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. navigation
  2. sailing

Words Related to Seafaring

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. maritime
  2. nautical
  3. sea-faring
  4. shipwreck

Seafaring Sentence Examples

  • The Phoenicians were essentially a seafaring nation.

  • The inhabitants of these islands support themselves by seafaring, pilotage, grazing of cattle and sheep, fishing and a little agriculture, chiefly potato-growing.

  • Their occupations are fishing, oyster-dredging, seafaring and wild-duck catching.

  • A book of stories of adventure on the sea, which he read over and over again when a boy, had filled him with a longing for a seafaring life.

  • After an apprenticeship in a counting-house, he led a seafaring life for several years, and became a shipowner and merchant.

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