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seafaring

seafaring adjective: living one's life at sea.

Adjective

seafaring (comparative more seafaring, superlative most seafaring)

  1. Living one's life at sea.
    • There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a seafaring race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that...1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...
  2. Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing.
    • A rowing boat is not a seafaring craft.

Noun

seafaring (plural seafarings)

  1. The act, process, or practice of travelling the seas, such as by sailing or steaming.
  2. The work or calling of a seafarer, especially a sailor.

seafaring meaning in Malayalam

seafaring in Malayalam

കപ്പലിൽ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്ന, കടൽ മാർഗ്ഗണ യാത്ര ചെയ്യുന്ന, കടലിൽ സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന

Forms of seafaring

Adjective
comparativemore seafaring
superlativemost seafaring
Noun
pluralseafarings

Origin of seafaring

From Middle English safarinde, see farand, se farinde, equivalent to sea + faring (“travelling; journeying; going”). Compare Old English sǣ-līþende (“seafaring”). Cognate with Dutch zeevarend (“seafaring”), German Low German seefahrend (“seafaring”), German seefahrend (“seafaring”), Danish søfarende (“seafaring”), Swedish sjöfarande (“seafaring”).

From sea + faring.

Words formed from seafaring

Questions about seafaring

What does seafaring mean?
Seafaring means living one's life at sea.
What is seafaring in Malayalam?
Seafaring in Malayalam is കപ്പലിൽ ജോലി ചെയ്യുന്ന, കടൽ മാർഗ്ഗണ യാത്ര ചെയ്യുന്ന, കടലിൽ സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന. See Seafaring meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is seafaring?
Seafaring can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near seafaring in the dictionary

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

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