Meaning & use
Mariner
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A sailor, especially one who works on a seagoing vessel.
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The old mariner told stories of storms he'd survived at sea decades earlier.
The ship's mariners kept careful watch through the foggy night.
A note on using this word
The word appears in one of English literature's most famous poems, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'
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