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# seafaring

«seafaring» in Mova's school dictionary: **Working or travelling on the sea; living by the sea and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (seafaring); noun (seafaring – uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (adjective) Working or travelling on the sea; living by the sea and sailing: «a seafaring nation». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#m1)

2) (noun) The life or work of sailors; travel by sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows the Sea Rat is a seafaring rat who tells the Water Rat wonderful tales of ports in Constantinople, Italy and Marseilles and almost tempts him to leave the river for a seafaring life. In history: the Vikings and Polynesians were great seafaring peoples. A seafarer is a sailor.

### examples

- The Vikings were a seafaring people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#x1)
- The Sea Rat told tales of his seafaring life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#x2)
- Polynesian seafaring was so skilled they found islands across the Pacific. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#x3)
- My great-grandad came from a seafaring family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#x4)
- Seafaring was hard and dangerous in old times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#x5)
- The town has a long seafaring history. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/seafaring/#x6)

### note

Adjective and noun with the same form. Related: seafarer (a sailor). Not a verb – we don't say «to seafare».

### Trees and pragmatics

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