mariner
part of speech
noun (a mariner, mariners)
meaning for a pupil
1) (old or literary) A sailor; a person who works on a ship. tree →
2) (Mariner) The name of some space probes and sports teams, such as NASA's Mariner probes or the Seattle Mariners baseball team. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Ezekiel the sailors and ships stand for the trade of the city of Tyre. In Jonah they are non-Jewish sailors who pray, each to his own god. Interpretation: In Jonah the sailors are often seen as kind and good people. They try hard to save Jonah and then turn to the God of Israel. In the primary lessons: In stories and poems, mariners sail the seas; the famous poem «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells of a sailor who shot an albatross. In history lessons, mariners used compasses and the stars to navigate. Phrases: the Ancient Mariner, master mariner, mariner's compass.
examples
- And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land, (Prophets EZK.27.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to exchange thy merchandise. (Prophets EZK.27.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. (Prophets JON.1.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- The old mariner told stories of storms at sea. tree →
- «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» is a long poem. tree →
- Mariners used the North Star to find their way. tree →
- A master mariner can captain a big ship. tree →
- The mariner's compass was a great invention. tree →
- NASA's Mariner 4 sent the first close pictures of Mars. tree →
- The mariners sang as they pulled the ropes. tree →
- The terrified mariners started back, expecting no better fate than to be torn to pieces and devoured. tree →
note
Countable. Old-fashioned or poetic; in everyday speech say «sailor». Pronounced MA-rin-er. Related: marine (to do with the sea), maritime.
Trees and pragmatics
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