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# mariner

«mariner» in Mova's school dictionary: **A sailor; a person who works on a ship** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a mariner, mariners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old or literary) A sailor; a person who works on a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#m1)

2) (Mariner) The name of some space probes and sports teams, such as NASA's Mariner probes or the Seattle Mariners baseball team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and poems, mariners sail the seas; the famous poem «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells of a sailor who shot an albatross. In history lessons, mariners used compasses and the stars to navigate. Phrases: the Ancient Mariner, master mariner, mariner's compass.

### examples

- The old mariner told stories of storms at sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x1)
- «The Rime of the Ancient Mariner» is a long poem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x2)
- Mariners used the North Star to find their way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x3)
- A master mariner can captain a big ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x4)
- The mariner's compass was a great invention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x5)
- NASA's Mariner 4 sent the first close pictures of Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x6)
- The mariners sang as they pulled the ropes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x7)
- The terrified mariners started back, expecting no better fate than to be torn to pieces and devoured. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/#x8)

### note

Countable. Old-fashioned or poetic; in everyday speech say «sailor». Pronounced MA-rin-er. Related: marine (to do with the sea), maritime.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mariner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mariner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.