mariner

[US]/ˈmærɪnə(r)/
[UK]/ˈmærɪnər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. sailor; seaman

Phrases & Collocations

experienced mariner

Example Sentences

A mariner must have his eye upon rocks and sands as well as upon the North Star.

The figure of the Ancient Mariner has been variously interpreted.

The USNS Victorious is an unarmed ocean surveillance ship operated by a civilian mariner crew working for the Military Sealift Command.

Take away then, when thou choosest, thy opinion, and like a mariner, who has doubled the promontory, thou wilt find calm, everything stable, and a waveless bay.

Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner climbs the rocks of his native country? then be worldly;

Real-world Examples

You give me back my sweater or ten bag mariner.

Source: Listen to a little bit of fresh news every day.

Altogether he gave me the impression of a respectable master mariner who had fallen into years and poverty.

Source: The Sign of the Four

Among the missing are mariners from China, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Source: CRI Online May 2023 Collection

A pair of stranded US mariners put out a signal for help and were noticed.

Source: AP Listening August 2016 Collection

Factoring into our next story is what the U.S. Coast Guard describes as the bond among mariners.

Source: CNN 10 Student English December 2020 Collection

He's off on his own now, the solitary mariner on a completely unchartered ocean of pure painting.

Source: The Power of Art - Joseph Mallord William Turner

The two mariners wrote a giant S.O.S. message in the sand of an uninhabited island in Micronesia, Hawaii.

Source: AP Listening August 2016 Collection

Today just over 100 mariners astrolabes are known to exist in the world but add this one to the tally.

Source: CNN 10 Student English March 2019 Collection

Thence arises his life of uncertainty and hazard-the life of a corsair and a pirate rather than of a mariner.

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 5

In 1788, a British mariner passed by these jagged snow-covered mountains.

Source: Aerial America

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