Meaning

6 senses
  1. A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.

    He's a talented sailor and has spent many years at sea.

    Matrose, Matrosin, Seemann

    матро́сmatrós, моря́кmorják, морепла́вательmoreplávatelʹ

    моря́кmorják, матро́сmatrós, морепла́вецьmoreplávecʹ

  2. A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.

    In particular, a member of the crew of a (civilian or military) vessel, as opposed to a captain, admiral, etc.; a mariner; a common seaman.

  3. A person who sails sailing boats (as opposed to boats powered by other means) as a sport or recreation.

  4. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.

  5. A stiff straw hat with a flat, circular brim and a low, flat crown.

    a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown

  6. 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.

Examples

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  1. He saved a sailor.

    Він врятував моряка.

    ruОн спас моряка.

    deEr hat einen Seemann gerettet.

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  2. You're a sailor, aren't you?

    Ти ж матрос?

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  3. The sailors abandoned the burning ship.

    ruМоряки покинули горящее судно.

    deDie Matrosen verließen das brennende Schiff.

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  4. He hoped to be a sailor.

    ruОн надеялся стать моряком.

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  5. I'm not much of a sailor.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner:
Русский
By meaning 1
worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
worker on a ship, seafarer, mariner:

Origin

Alteration of earlier sailer, from Middle English sailer, sayler, saylere, equivalent to s

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.

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