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/ˈsiˌfɛɹɚ/ · noun
Someone whose occupation is operating a ship or boat at sea, for either civilian or military purposes..
An intergovernmental panel will draw up plans to relieve seafarers who have been stuck at sea during a crisis.
Clearly the earliest Australians were seafarers who landed there tens of thousands of years ago; our quest to know more about them — did they come from Melanesia? what kind of boats did they have? were they blown out to sea by a storm? — is ongoing.
Use seafarer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Seafarer means Someone whose occupation is operating a ship or boat at sea, for either civilian or military purposes..
Common synonyms include mariner, seaman, sailor, tar.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
An intergovernmental panel will draw up plans to relieve seafarers who have been stuck at sea during a crisis.
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