SAILOR


Meaning of SAILOR in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

sailor suit

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

experienced

It's sometimes limited if the winds are strong and we have only a few experienced sailors on holiday.

Coaching from our motor safety boats and daily chats on theory help the more experienced sailors develop their skills.

She was supposed to be an experienced sailor .

Even the most experienced of sailors get waylaid in Tobermory.

Most seem to be between 20 and 55, though some are younger and many experienced sailors are older.

More experienced sailors enjoy the lively Lasers dinghies, local windsurfing, and independent day cruising in Wayfarers.

A new flotilla route in the Dodecanese Islands is offered for more experienced sailors .

That suggests he was an experienced sailor .

good

Ironically I do not make a very good sailor .

As a yacht delivery skipper he had to be a damn good sailor .

Turns out all of us are pretty good sailors .

Although he was a good sailor , Columbus was a bad governor.

I have never been a good sailor , and kept to my bunk for the first part of the journey.

Even the best sailors can be swept into them, apart from which they can cause all sorts of damage to your equipment.

How he got there no-one knows, but he was a very good sailor and an even better artist.

old

Opposite on the left of our room was the home of an old sailor Mr May.

Only paces away the two old sailors had stopped their mending, watching.

young

Daniel followed the young sailor into the room.

I presented the Amway plan to a young sailor who was a member of the tough and courageous Navy Seals.

■ NOUN

dinghy

And some are flexible, with fun and opportunities for dinghy sailors or non-sailors too.

suit

He was in his sailor suit , dressed for church.

He put on a sailor suit for real during a stint in the Navy.

Not from his cradle of course, since his sailor suit days.

Incredible deltoids, biceps, buttocks, and thighs outlined and simultaneously gripped by the tight cut of his sailor suit .

Lily, I've on my new sailor suit .

He still wears a sailor suit , the cowlick at his hairline gives his forelock a life of its own.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Janet married a sailor in the French navy.

Two thousand British sailors lost their lives when the ship went down.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A sailor appeared in front of him, holding two women in his arms.

A floating pontoon of surveying sailors.

Here are soldiers and sailors, with troops of acquaintances to see them off.

Morale dropped as sailors suffered from stress and uncertainty, he said.

Or firemen or merchant sailors or bakers.

Sure, its primary clientele was sailors.

They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality.

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