seafaring

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English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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”).

Adjective[edit]

seafaring (comparative more seafaring, superlative most seafaring)

  1. Living one's life at sea.
    • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
      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.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From sea +‎ faring.

Noun[edit]

seafaring (plural seafarings)

  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.
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