mariner
noun
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In Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an old seaman tells of how, by shooting a friendly albatross, he had brought storms and disaster to his ship, and how as punishment his shipmates hung the great seabird around the mariner's neck and made him wear it until it rotted. The word mariner has occasionally been used to mean simply "explorer", as in the famous Mariner spaceflights in the 1960s and '70s, the first to fly close to Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
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Examples of mariner in a Sentence
Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
The city of Huntington Beach has not announced any beach closures, but mariners have received a safety alert to stay out of the area.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
The Dali mariners’ urgent request: Could someone take them shopping?
—William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
For serious mariners, form followed function, and fripperies were frowned upon.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 23 Mar. 2024
Two mariners faced a terrifying predicament in the remote Atlantic, when a lighting strike punched a hole through their sailboat just minutes before sunset.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
The mariners reported that their boat was taking on water after it was struck by lightning, which left a hole in the vessel.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2024
Israel-Gaza war Houthi militants struck a commercial vessel off the coast of Yemen on Wednesday, killing three civilian mariners.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
Captain's behavior remains an enigma Questions still linger over why Captain Burke, an experienced mariner who knew the Great Lakes well, went down with the Arlington rather than be rescued with the rest of his crew.
—Stephen Smith, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin marinarius, from marinus
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Mariner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mariner. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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