sailor

Meaning

A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.
A stiff straw hat with a flat, circular brim and a low, flat crown.
A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), with its widest face facing the outside of the wall.

seaman

mariner

navy man

sailor boy

crew

flat-foot

jack tar

sea folk

blue coat

deck-hand

Jack-tar

Frequency

Hyphenated as

sail‧or

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈseɪ.lɚ/

Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to sail + -or. Cognate with German Segler (“sailor”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English marinel, marynell (“sailor”) borrowed from Old French marinel (“sailor”). See mariner.