sailor
part of speech
noun (a sailor, sailors)
meaning for a pupil
1) A sailor is a person who works on a ship or boat, especially as part of its crew. tree →
2) A sailor is a member of a navy. tree →
3) A sailor is a person who sails boats for fun or sport. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and stories sailors go on voyages, explorations and adventures (Captain Cook, pirates, the Navy). In everyday life sailors sail small boats on lakes and the sea; water safety means wearing a life jacket. Phrases: «sailor suit», «a good sailor» (not seasick), «sailor's knot», «sailor's hat».
examples
- The sailor climbed up the mast. tree →
- My uncle was a sailor in the Navy. tree →
- The sailors pulled hard on the ropes. tree →
- Sailors used the stars to find their way at night. tree →
- She is a keen sailor and races dinghies at weekends. tree →
- I'm not a good sailor; I get seasick on boats. tree →
- The old sailor told stories of storms at sea. tree →
- Every sailor must wear a life jacket. tree →
- Presently the sailors lowered the anchor and landed. tree →
note
Countable: «a sailor». Spelling trap: ends in «-or», not «-er» (but «sailer» is a rare word for a ship). Similar: «seaman», «mariner». «A good sailor» can mean someone who does not get seasick.
In the corpora
- Dugongs are sea cows that graze on sea grass, and sailors long ago may have mistaken dugongs and manatees for mermaids.
- Real sailors did bring parrots home from tropical voyages, but catching wild parrots for pets is now restricted to protect them.
- He is not a deep-ocean sailor: «I'm in the coasting trade, and rarely out of sight of land.
- Salt pulls water out of food so germs cannot grow; sailors and others salted meat and fish before fridges existed.
- "The head" is the sailors' word for the toilet on a boat or ship.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sailor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.