seafaring

«seafaring» in Mova's school dictionary: Working or travelling on the sea; living by the sea and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (seafaring); noun (seafaring – uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) (adjective) Working or travelling on the sea; living by the sea and sailing: «a seafaring nation». tree →

2) (noun) The life or work of sailors; travel by sea. tree →

sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows the Sea Rat is a seafaring rat who tells the Water Rat wonderful tales of ports in Constantinople, Italy and Marseilles and almost tempts him to leave the river for a seafaring life. In history: the Vikings and Polynesians were great seafaring peoples. A seafarer is a sailor.

examples

• The Vikings were a seafaring people. tree →
• The Sea Rat told tales of his seafaring life. tree →
• Polynesian seafaring was so skilled they found islands across the Pacific. tree →
• My great-grandad came from a seafaring family. tree →
• Seafaring was hard and dangerous in old times. tree →
• The town has a long seafaring history. tree →

note

Adjective and noun with the same form. Related: seafarer (a sailor). Not a verb – we don't say «to seafare».

Trees and pragmatics

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