seafarer

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈsiˌfeɹɚ/|/-fɛəɹɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone whose occupation is operating a ship or boat at sea, for either civilian or military purposes.
    — An intergovernmental panel will draw up plans to relieve seafarers who have been stuck at sea during a crisis.
  2. Anyone who travels by sea.
    — Clearly the earliest Australians were seafarers who landed there tens of thousands of years ago; our quest to know more about them — did they come from Melanesia? what kind of boats did they have? were they blown out to sea by a storm? — is ongoing.

词形变化

seafarers plural

词汇关系

相关词
seafare seafaring

词源

From Middle English *se-farere (suggested by se-farende, sa farinde (“sea-faring”)) equivalent to sea + farer (“traveler”) and to seafare + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch seevarer, whence Modern Dutch zeevaarder (“seafarer”), West Frisian seefarder (“seafarer”), German Seefahrer (“seafarer”), Swedish sjöfarare (“seafarer”).
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