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seafare

seafare verb: to travel or voyage by sea.

Verb

seafare (third-person singular simple present seafares, present participle seafaring, simple past seafared, past participle seafared or (archaic) seafaren)

  1. To travel or voyage by sea
    • […] and although it was quite understood that he would marry her sooner or later, the happy day seemed as distant as ever. He accepted Tony's offer and went to Germany to “seafare.”1914, Max Pemberton, Two Women, page 88
    • Various Japanese governments in different dynasties attempted to restrict military groups from seafaring. However, Japan has a long coastline, and the Japanese governments had to allow fishermen to seafare for a living.2016, C. Simon Fan, Culture, Institution, and Development in China

Noun (1)

seafare (countable and uncountable, plural seafares)

  1. Travel or journey by sea.
    • He also managed to get a sort of "subsidy," or annual allowance, from the Crown. Gradually, Henry became deeply related to seafare, and to sea people.1972, António Henrique R. de Oliveira Marques, History of Portugal: From Lusitania to empire, page 144

Noun (2)

seafare (plural seafares)

  1. A rent paid in commutation of the duty of carrying supplies or passengers by water.
  2. Seafood.

seafare meaning in Bengali

seafare in Bengali

সমুদ্রপথে ভ্রমণ, যাত্রা, সামুদ্রিক খাদ্য

Forms of seafare

Verb
third-person singular presentseafares
present participleseafaring
pastseafared
past participleseafared
past participle (archaic)seafaren
Noun
pluralseafares

Origin of seafare

Back-formation from seafaring and/or seafarer, equivalent to sea + fare.

From Middle English seefare, equivalent to sea + fare.

Questions about seafare

What does seafare mean?
Seafare means to travel or voyage by sea.
What is seafare in Bengali?
Seafare in Bengali is সমুদ্রপথে ভ্রমণ, যাত্রা, সামুদ্রিক খাদ্য. See Seafare meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is seafare?
Seafare can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of seafare?
The past tense of seafare is seafared.

Words near seafare in the dictionary

  1. seadrones
  2. seaduck
  3. seaducks
  4. seafan
  5. seafans
  6. seafare
  7. seafarer
  8. seafarers
  9. seafares
  10. seafaring
  11. seafarings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seafare (page history and authors); seafare (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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