seaman
noun
a person skilled in seamanship.
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seaman
1 American
[see-muhn]
/ ˈsi mən /
noun
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seamen
plural
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a person skilled in seamanship.
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a person whose trade or occupation is assisting in the handling, sailing, and navigating of a ship during a voyage, especially one below the rank of officer; sailor.
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U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. an enlisted person ranking below petty officer.
Seaman
2
American
[see-muhn]
/ ˈsi mən /
noun
seaman
British
/ ˈsiːmən /
noun
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a rating trained in seamanship as opposed to electrical engineering, etc
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a man who serves as a sailor
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a person skilled in seamanship
Synonym Usage
See sailor.
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Etymology
Origin of seaman
First recorded before 900; Middle English seeman, Old English sǣmann. See sea, man
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"We don't have enough water on board right now. We got food a few days back," said one Indian seaman stuck in a small refuelling boat off Iraq, within sight of the Iranian shore.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
All told, 89 merchant vessels and more than 2,700 Allied seaman perished in the Arctic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
In 1985, as the Year of the Pacific approached, the ship’s captain was Peter Willcox, a lifelong seaman and conscientious objector from Vietnam who’d devoted his career to environmental action on the oceans.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
He eventually enlisted in the Marine Corps and was a merchant seaman before pursuing a career in journalism, according to Tucker Carlson’s post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
Further south, towards the Mediterranean basin, you might have seen a seaman being punished for gambling, under a law of Richard Coeur de Lion.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Or David Seaman grasping at thin air as Ronaldinho's free-kick found its way into the back of the net in the quarter-final loss to Brazil in 2002.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Seaman, the Akamai researcher and a Big Pipes member, couldn’t believe what Brundage was picking up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Chad Seaman, a researcher at Akamai, joked at one point that the internet could go down if Brundage spent too much time on his exams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
That giant botnet, called Kimwolf, is the most powerful ever assembled, said Chad Seaman, a security researcher at the networking company Akamai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
“Today Seaman Caden’s diving bell shall be put to the test, and the manner of our descent shall be once and for all determined.”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
But the FAA expressly excludes from arbitration “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
The Journal spoke to more than a dozen seamen held in the gulf, who described deteriorating conditions tipping into a humanitarian crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
But like many seamen, he says he needed the work.
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
The researchers have estimated that the proportion of lung cancers related to onboard asbestos exposure were of the order of 27 per cent in Australian seamen and 12 per cent in British seamen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
In 1980, according to the article, sixteen Danish seamen issued a Mayday call, donned life jackets, and jumped into the North Sea as their vessel sank beneath them.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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