seaman

Other forms of seaman

plural

seamans·

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 seaman

What does seaman mean?

seaman means "a man who serves as a sailor". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seaman?

seaman has 2 syllables: sea-man. The stress falls on "sea". In IPA it is /ˈsimən/.

What is another word for seaman?

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

seaman is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with seaman?

1 word rhymes with seaman. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.