mariner

«mariner» in Mova's school dictionary: A sailor; a person who works on a ship — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

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 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

• 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

Every meaning and example of «mariner» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.