Sailor

Definition: Sailor

Sailor

Noun

1. Any member of a ship's crew.

2. A serviceman in the navy.

3. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown.

Date "sailor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	A man who makes his living on water but never touches it on shore. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of sailors, portends long and exciting journeys. For a young woman to dream of sailors, is ominous of a separation from her lover through a frivolous flirtation. If she dreams that she is a sailor, she will indulge in some unmaidenly escapade, and be in danger of losing a faithful lover. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Occupations	A term applied to workers aboard seagoing vessels. Classifications are made according to duties performed as MARINE OILER (water trans.); ORDINARY SEAMAN (water trans.). (references)
Statistics	The member of a ship's crew, especially the one below the rank of officer. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sailor

Synonyms: bluejacket (n), boater (n), crewman (n), leghorn (n), navy man (n), sailor boy (n), skimmer (n), straw hat (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bungler	Land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin,land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack; (deceiver); lord of misrule.
Mariner	Noun: sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer, seafaring man; dock walloper; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.; man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman; bargee, gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, coxswain; steersman, pilot; crew.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Except we're both wearing sailor hats (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman) I know you're feeling pretty hey sailor up here about now. But if you would just let me order a bowl of fried clams we can all have smallpox tomorrow morning (George of the Jungle; writing credit: Jay Ward; Dana Olsen) I’m Popeye the sailor man. (Popeye; writing credit: Jules Feiffer. Based on the comic strip by E.C. Segar. Starring Robin Williams as Popeye, Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl, Ray Walston as Poopdeck Pappy, and Paul Dooley as Wimpy.) The murderer is a Rumanian sailor by the name of Vladimir Tserijemiwtz (The Cheap Detective; writing credit: Neil Simon) I am Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon; writing credit: Todd Swift)
Lyrics	Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) And now MacHeath spends just like a sailor (Mack The Knife; performing artist: Bobby Darin) Speed of light girl, she is a sailor (Girl With the Hungry Eyes; performing artist: JEFFERSON STARSHIP)
Movie/TV Titles	The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) Sailor and Marine (1964) Sailor! Watch it (1961) Sailor Beware! (1956) The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
Song Titles	Sailor (Your Home Is The Sea) (performing artist: Lolita) Saucy Sailor (performing artist: Steeleye Span)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Sailor Pen Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Formerly Classified: Memoirs of a 20th Century American Soldier, Diplomat, Author, Sculptor, Sailor, Amateur Archeologist, and Adventurer (reference) American Military Equipage, 1851-1872: A Description by Word and Picture of What the American Solider, Sailor, and Marine of These Years Wore and car (reference) Saucy Sailor and Other Dramatized Ballads (reference) Battleship Sailor (Blue Jacket Books) (reference) All Things Betray Thee: The Life and Times of a Liverpool Sailor (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Canadian Sailor (reference) Ontario Sailor Magazine (reference) Practical Sailor (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Sailor Moon - The Legend Begins (TV Show, Vol. 1) (reference) Sailor Moon R The Movie - The Promise of the Rose (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Son of a Son of a Sailor (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sailor sounding from merchantman - Nineteenth Century Sketch by Gordon Grant. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Boatswain Eden Described as a typical deepsea sailor On the LYDONIA. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Leaning into the roll. About a 25 degree roll from the stance of the sailor. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Burial site of an American sailor who never made it home. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Music - a companion of the sailor - note the survival suit. Credit: Fisheries.		Cartoon depicting stereotypical sailor ashore from a magazine. In: "Scrap Book Hydrographic Inspector's Office", 1881. Call Number QB 281.2 .S37 1881. Credit: Treasures of the Library.
	Translated as a "Comfortable position for the traveller!", obviously a bit of humor. The sailor is passing a line over the pulley to keep it from striking end of the boom during Bouree net towing operations. Plate VIII, print 11. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		A severely injured sailor from the USS Cole is taken from an ambulance at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Oct. 15, and loaded aboard a C-141 Starlifter by medical personnel from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. The injured sailor is being transported to the.
	U.S. Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA. : Nurse and sailor comforting child. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		The Sailor and the Quack Doctor!! / Woodward del. Cruikshank sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Samuel Butler	The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The sailor of that day would go near to be arraigned as a pirate in our own.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The (r)gamin is a born slater as he is a born sailor.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The little silk badge with the red rose on it looked very rich because he had a blue sailor top on.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of the Dii Manes, or souls of the dead heroes; for the pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising materials. It was while sacrificing a bullock to the spirit of Agamemnon that Laiaides, a priest of Aulis, was favored with an audience of that illustrious warrior's shade, who prophetically recounted to him the birth of Christ and the triumph of Christianity, giving him also a rapid but tolerably complete review of events down to the reign of Saint Louis. The narrative ended abruptly at the point, owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades. There is a fine mediaeval flavor to this story, and as it has not been traced back further than Pere Brateille, a pious but obscure writer at the court of Saint Louis, we shall probably not err on the side of presumption in considering it apocryphal, though Monsignor Capel's judgment of the matter might be different; and to that I bow -- wow.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sailor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.66% of the time. "Sailor" is used about 447 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.66%	441	13,108
Noun (proper)	1.12%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	0.22%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	447	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "sailor" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Sailor	Last name	1,000	13,167
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name
Japan	Sailor Pen Co., Ltd.
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Expressions using "sailor": be a bad sailor ♦ be a good sailor ♦ be a poor sailor ♦ be good sailor ♦ paper sailor ♦ ragged sailor ♦ sailor blouse ♦ sailor boy ♦ sailor cap ♦ sailor colllar ♦ sailor hat ♦ sailor on submarine ♦ Sailor Springs ♦ sailor suit ♦ Sinbad the Sailor ♦ the Sailor King ♦ wrecked sailor. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sailor": sailor-boy, sailor-collared, sailor-hero, sailor-like, sailor-man, sailor-suit, sailor-suited.
	Ending with "sailor": dinghy-sailor, ex-sailor, gypsy-sailor, non-sailor, poet-sailor, semi-sailor.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sailor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		marinar (gob, hand, mariner, reefer, seafarer, seaman), lundërtar (bargee, boatman, navigator, punter, seafarer, seaman, voyager), detar (hand, Jack, marine, mariner, maritime, nautical, naval, sea, seafarer, seafaring, seagoing, seaman, tar). (various references)

Arabic		‏ملاح (boatman, mariner, navigator, salt, seafarer, seaman, tar), ‏الملاح, ‏البحار, ‏بحار (gob, man of arms, mariner, navigator, rating, sea man, seafarer, seaman, seasickness). (various references)

Bulgarian		моряк (flatfoot, hearty, jolly, mariner, navigator, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, swab, tar, tarpaulin), мореплавател (navigator, seafarer, seaman), матрос (deck hand, seaman, tar). (various references)

Chinese		水手 (mariner, seaman). (various references)

Czech		námořník (jack tar, mariner, rating, seafarer, seaman). (various references)

Danish		sømand. (various references)

Dutch		zeeman (mariner, seaman), varensgezel, janmaat. (various references)

Esperanto		maristo, ŝipisto. (various references)

Faeroese		sjómaður. (various references)

Farsi		ملوان (Gob, Gone, Leatherneck, Seaman, Shipman), ناوی . (various references)

Finnish		purjehtija (yachtsman), merimies (seaman), matruusi (seaman). (various references)

French		navigateur, matelot, marin. (various references)

Frisian		skipper, seeman. (various references)

German		Seemann (mariner, navigator, seaman), Matrose (bluejacket, rating), Seefahrer (mariner, navigator, seafarer). (various references)

Greek		ναύτησ (bluejacket, gob, mariner, privateer, seaman, tar), ναύτης (tar), ναυτικοί (seaman). (various references)

Hebrew		מלח (mariner, seafarer, seaman), ימאי (nautical, seafarer, seaman), יורד ים (mariner, seafarer, seaman), חובל (mate), ספן (deck hand, mariner, water man). (various references)

Hungarian		tengerész (gob, marine, mariner, matelot, navigator, ordinary seaman, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, swiss admiral, tar), matróz (boatman, boatmen, jack-tar, lascar, matelot, ordinary seaman, private, seaman, tar). (various references)

Icelandic		háseti. (various references)

Indonesian		pelaut (mariner). (various references)

Irish		maraí, mairnéalach, loingseoir. (various references)

Italian		marinaio (Jack, mariner, seaman, skipper), navigatore (navigator, sailer, seafarer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		舟人 (boatman, passenger), 船乗り (getting on board, seaman), 船員 , マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton), 海兵 (marine), 海員 (seaman), 水兵 , 水夫 , 兵隊　 (soldier), 兵隊 (soldier). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいふ (cook, kitchen maid), すいへい (decline, horizon, water level), マドロス , ふなびと (boatman, passenger), ふなのり (getting on board, seaman), せんいん, かいいん (carrying off by deception, changing seals, drinking and carousing together, hospital opening, kidnap, member, opening congress, seaman, the membership), かいへい (extraction of square root, marine, opening and shutting, universal conscription), へいたい (soldier). (various references)

Korean		선원 (mariner, seaman, Seamen). (various references)

Manx		shiaulteyr (ferroman, matelot, seafarer, seaman), marrinagh (deckhand, mariner, seafarer, seafaring, seaman). (various references)

Maori		heramana. (various references)

Norwegian		sjømann. (various references)

Papiamen		nabegante, marinero. (various references)

Pig Latin		ailorsay.(various references)

Portuguese		marinheiro (bluejacket, boot, gob, hand, mariner, navigating officer, navigator, oil tar, seafarer, seaman, tar, tarpaulin). (various references)

Romanian		matroz (seaman), matelot (seaman), marinar (blue, Jack, mariner, navigator, seafaring man, seaman). (various references)

Russian		моряк (mariner, seafarer, seaman, seamen). (various references)

Scottish		seòladair. (various references)

Sepedi		mothadiai. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mornar (deckhand, jack, mariner, seaman), moreplovac (circumnavigator, navigator, seafarer). (various references)

Spanish		marinero (bluejacket, Jack, man, mariner, rating, seafarer, seafaring, seagoing, seaman, tar). (various references)

Swedish		sjöman (hand, Jack, mariner, seaman, tar), matros (able seaman, Jack, rating, seaman). (various references)

Thai		ทหารเรือ, ลูกเรือ (hand). (various references)

Turkish		gemici (bluejacket, gob, jack tar, mariner, navigator, seafarer, seaman, tar), denizci (gob, krooboy, mariner, navigator, seaman, tar), bahríyelí. (various references)

Turkmen		matros (r) (seaman), deсizзi. (various references)

Ukrainian		вітрильне судно (sailer), моряк (blue, gob, mariner, sailer, seafarer, seaman), матрос (seaman, tar). (various references)

Vietnamese		lính thuỷ. (various references)

Welsh		morwr (mariner, seaman), mordwywr (mariner), llongwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	ma-lah. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	nauta, nautae, nautas, nautis, pirata. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	aelida, brimmann, flota, flotman, lidmann, s&. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sailor": sailorly, sailors. (additional references)
	Words ending with "sailor": boardsailor. (additional references)
	Words containing "sailor": boardsailors. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sailor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ailort, Dalibor, Kaylor, Sacilor, Saibol, Saidou, sailform, sailore, sailr, Saitoh, saivoure, Saligo, saligos, Salimov, Saliou, Salor, saltoro, Saugor, sauour, saylac, saylor, Saynor, seior, seisor, Shaylor, soilor, Zaikov, Zelor. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sailor" (pronounced sā"ler)
4	s ā" l er	Sailer.
3	-ā" l er	bailer, bailor, inhaler, jailer, Mailer, scalar, semitrailer, tailor, Thaler, trailer, whaler.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: arils, lairs, laris, liars, liras, loris, orals, rails, rials, roils, solar.
	-2 letters: ails, airs, also, aril, lair, lari, lars, liar, lira, oars, oils, oral, osar, rail, rial, rias, roil, sail, sari, sial, silo, soar, soil, sola, soli, sora, sori.
	-3 letters: ail, air, ais, als, ars, lar, las, lis, oar, oil, ora, ors, ras.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: bailors, girasol, glorias, jailors, ooralis, oralism, oralist, rialtos, sailors, solaria, tailors.
	+2 letters: ailerons, airflows, airfoils, airglows, airholes, algorism, alienors, bolivars, calorics, calories, carioles, clarions, cordials, darioles, dilators, foresail, garboils, gasolier, girasole, girasols, goliards, gorillas, isolator, kilobars, kilorads, labroids, mislabor, moralise, moralism, moralist, oralisms, oralists, orbitals, ordinals, orinasal, ostiolar, parboils, pelorias, polarise, rasorial, raviolis, royalism, royalist, sailorly, savorily, seraglio, shoalier, solarise, solarism, solarium, solarize, solidary, solitary, strobila, tonsilar, valorise, variolas, varioles, wooralis, zorillas.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sailor moon	15,158	sailor moon naked	274
sailor moon hentai	2,874	sailor moon fan fiction	271
sailor moon picture	2,601	sailor moon.com	260
sailor	1,050	sailor jupiter	245
sailor moon porn	904	sailor moon music video	219
sailor moon xxx	711	sailor moon video clip	205
sailor moon nude	557	moon moon sailor sailor	205
sailor moon gallery	402	sailor moon manga	197
sailor moon image	394	sailor chibi moon	195
sailor moon sex	379	sailor scout	193
sailor moon x	333	sailor moon romance	179
sailor mars	324	sailor moon picture gallery	159
coloring moon page sailor	319	sailor moon episode	152
sailor moon wallpaper	309	sailor moon anime	151
sailor saturn	309	sailor moon mp3	148
sailor moon music	306	sailor neptune	144
sailor mercury	298	sailor uranus	139
sailor venus	288	sailor moon song	135
free sailor moon hentai	287	act relief sailor soldier	133
sailor moon game	287	act sailor soldier	131
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sailor

Definition: Sailor

Sailor

Noun

Specialty Definition: Sailor

Specialty Definition: Sailor

Synonyms: Sailor

Synonyms within Context: Sailor

Bungler

Mariner

Crosswords: Sailor

Modern Usage: Sailor

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Samuel Butler

Use in Literature: Sailor

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Sailor

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

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Name Usage Frequency: Sailor

Usage in Company Names: Sailor

Sailor Pen Co., Ltd.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sailor

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