What is another word for seafaring?

Pronunciation: [sˈiːfe͡əɹɪŋ] (IPA)

Seafaring is a word that is often used to describe activities that take place on the sea or ocean. However, there are many synonyms for this word that can be used to add variety to your writing or speech. Some alternative words that can be used to mean seafaring include sailoring, ocean going, navigating, maritime, boating, marine, shipping, yachting, cruising, and nautical. Other possible synonyms for seafaring could include words like journeying, voyaging, or travelling by water. These words all convey a sense of adventure and exploration that is associated with seafaring, and can help to make your writing or speech more engaging and interesting.

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What are the hypernyms for Seafaring?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    navigation, sailing, water transportation, maritime activities, nautical activities, seafaring lifestyle.

Usage examples for Seafaring

Most likely, now, that coat belonged to some seafaring man as got drownded, and the poor chap's things sold.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
He has something the look of a seafaring man, Mr. Prowle.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
He in the meantime took a few turns on the pier, and got into conversation with two or three of the old seafaring men who were standing about; the younger were at sea in their boats, or had gone home after the night's fishing.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston

Famous quotes with Seafaring

  • My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
    William Standish Knowles
  • Your mind flies free and you see yourself as an actor, condemned to a treadmill wherein men and women conspire to breathe life into a screenplay that allegedly depicts life as it was in the old wild West.Why did you never write?Hayden's wild," they said. "He's kind of nuts — but you've got to hand it to him. He doesn't give a damn about the loot or the stardom or things like that — something to do with his seafaring, or maybe what he went through in the war . . ."
    Sterling Hayden
  • An overstrained sense of manliness is the characteristic of seafaring men. This often gives an appearance of want of feeling, and even of cruelty. From this, if a man comes within an ace of breaking his neck and escapes, it is made a joke of; and no notice must be taken of a bruise or cut; and expression of pity, or any show of attention, would look sisterly, and unbecoming a man who has to face the rough and tumble of such a life. From this cause, too, the sick are neglected at sea, and, whatever sailors may be ashore, a sick man finds little sympathy or attention, forward or aft. A man, too, can have nothing peculiar or sacred on board ship; for all the nicer feelings they take pride in disregarding, both in themselves and others. A "thin-skinned" man could hardly live on shipboard. One would be torn raw unless he had the hide of an ox.
    Richard Henry Dana
  • Doctors is all swabs...and that doctor there, why, what do he know about seafaring men? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes — what do the doctor know of lands like that? — and I lived on rum, I tell you.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Only a seaman realises to what great extent an entire ship reflects the personality and ability of one individual, her Commanding Officer. To a landsman, this is not understandable—and sometimes it is even difficult for us to comprehend—but it is so! A ship at sea is a different world in herself, and in consideration of the protracted and distant operations of the fleet units, the Navy must place great power, responsibility and trust in the hands of those leaders chosen for command. In each ship there is one man who, in the hour of emergency or peril at sea, can turn to no other man. There is one who alone is ultimately responsible for the safe navigation, engineering performance, accurate gunfire and morale of the ship. He is the Commanding Officer. He is the ship. This is the most difficult and demanding assignment in the Navy. There is not an instant during his tour as Commanding Officer that he can escape the grasp of command responsibility. His privileges, in view of his obligations, are almost ludicrously small; nevertheless, this is the spur which has given the Navy its great leaders. It is a duty which richly deserves the highest, time-honoured title of the seafaring world—Captain.
    Joseph Conrad

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