old salt

Questions about old salt

What does old salt mean?

old salt means "a man who serves as a sailor".

What is another word for old salt?

Close synonyms include mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack. 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 old salt a common word?

old salt is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.