seafaring

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act, process, or practice of travelling the seas, such as by sailing or steaming.
  2. The work or calling of a seafarer, especially a sailor.
形容词 adj.
  1. Living one's life at sea.
    — There was absolutely nothing about the body to suggest that it might possibly in life have known a maritime experience. It was the body of a low type of man or a high type of beast. In neither instance would it have been of a seafaring race. Therefore I deduced that it was native to Caprona--that it lived inland, and that it had fallen or been hurled from the cliffs above.
  2. Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing.
    — A rowing boat is not a seafaring craft.

词形变化

more seafaring comparative most seafaring superlative seafarings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
semiseafaring unseafaring

词源

词源 1
From Middle English safarinde, see farand, se farinde, equivalent to sea + faring (“travelling; journeying; going”). Compare Old English sǣ-līþende (“seafaring”). Cognate with Dutch zeevarend (“seafaring”), German Low German seefahrend (“seafaring”),
German seefahrend (“seafaring”), Danish søfarende (“seafaring”), Swedish sjöfarande (“seafaring”).
词源 2
From sea + faring.
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