ABLE SEAMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does able seaman mean? 

• ABLE SEAMAN (noun)
  The noun ABLE SEAMAN has 1 sense:

1. a seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills

  Familiarity information: ABLE SEAMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABLE SEAMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A seaman in the merchant marine; trained in special skills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

able-bodied seaman; able seaman

Hypernyms ("able seaman" is a kind of...):

gob; Jack; Jack-tar; mariner; old salt; sea dog; seafarer; seaman; tar (a man who serves as a sailor)

 Context examples 

Cabin-boy at twelve, ship’s boy at fourteen, ordinary seamen at sixteen, able seaman at seventeen, and cock of the fo’c’sle, infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself—navigation, mathematics, science, literature, and what not.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)