able-bodied seaman

1. 1.

   a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills

   Synonymsable seaman

   Broadermariner

Questions about able-bodied seaman

What does able-bodied seaman mean?

able-bodied seaman means "a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills".

What is another word for able-bodied seaman?

Close synonyms include able seaman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is able-bodied seaman a common word?

able-bodied seaman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.