Word.ws English Dictionary

seafarers

seafarers is the plural of seafarer.

Meaning of seafarer

Noun

seafarer (plural seafarers)

  1. Someone whose occupation is operating a ship or boat at sea, for either civilian or military purposes.
    • An intergovernmental panel will draw up plans to relieve seafarers who have been stuck at sea during a crisis.
    Synonyms:
    mariner, seaman, sailor
  2. Anyone who travels by sea.
    • Clearly the earliest Australians were seafarers who landed there tens of thousands of years ago; our quest to know more about them — did they come from Melanesia? what kind of boats did they have? were they blown out to sea by a storm? — is ongoing.

Questions about seafarers

What is seafarers the plural of?
Seafarers is the plural of seafarer.

Words near seafarers in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: seafarers (page history and authors); seafarer (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “seafarers.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/seafarers. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.