Usually means: Person who operates or navigates ships.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word sailor:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sailor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sailor: Merriam-Webster
  3. sailor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sailor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sailor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sailor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sailor, sailor: Wordnik
  8. sailor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sailor, sailor: Wiktionary
  10. sailor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sailor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sailor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sailor: Dictionary.com
  14. sailor: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sailor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sailor (TV series), Sailor (Your Home is the Sea), Sailor (album), Sailor (band), Sailor (disambiguation), Sailor (horse), Sailor (song), Sailor, The Sailor (Rich Brian album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sailor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sailor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sailor: Rhymezone
  20. sailor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sailor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sailor: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sailor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sailor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sailor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sailor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sailor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sailor (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. sailor, sailor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See sailoring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who sails; one whose occupation is sailing or navigating ships or other waterborne craft.
noun:  In particular, a member of the crew of a (civilian or military) vessel, as opposed to a captain, admiral, etc.; a mariner; a common seaman.
noun:  A person who sails sailing boats (as opposed to boats powered by other means) as a sport or recreation.
noun:  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma, having white markings on a dark base and commonly flying by gliding.
noun:  A stiff straw hat with a flat, circular brim and a low, flat crown.
noun:  A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically on its shortest end (smallest face), with its widest face facing the outside of the wall.
noun:  A surname.

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