sailor

IPA: sˈeɪɫɝ

A person in the business of navigating ships or other vessels
Someone knowledgeable in the practical management of ships.
A member of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
A person who sails sailing boats as a sport or recreation.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.
A surname.

Examples of "sailor" in Sentences

They knew that drink -- and drink with a sailor is always excessive -- made them mad, but only mildly mad.
He added, This sailor is a veritable storehouse of information of all kinds, as he reads and retains everything that comes through.
_________ I think what is being said is that other countries refer to their sailors in some form of the word "marine" as they do not have a distinct separate branch that differentiates a sailor from a marine as in the US military.
And by "sailor" is meant, not the average efficient and hopeless creature who is found to-day in the forecastle of deepwater ships, but the man who will take a fabric compounded of wood and iron and rope and canvas and compel it to obey his will on the surface of the sea.
And by "sailor" is meant, not the average inefficient and hopeless creature who is found to-day in the forecastles of deepwater ships, but the man who will take a fabric compounded of wood and iron and rope and canvas and compel it to obey his will on the surface of the sea.