seafarer

Other forms of seafarer

plural

seafarers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about seafarer

What does seafarer mean?

seafarer means "a man who serves as a sailor".

How many syllables are in seafarer?

seafarer has 3 syllables: sea-far-er. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˈsiˌfɛɹɚ/.

What is another word for seafarer?

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 seafarer a common word?

seafarer 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.