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mariner

Nautical
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A sailor, especially one who works on the sea. The word is more literary than everyday sailor.

Detailed Definition
A mariner is a person who travels or works on the sea, especially in older or literary English. Poets often use it to give a story a traditional seafaring tone.
Example
Example in poetry:
Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner is the archetypal sailor-speaker: “It is an ancient Mariner”; “The mariner watched the barometer fall / and reefed the sail before dawn”; A contemporary sea poem might call a migrant “a mariner of borrowed maps”; “O mariner, keep the north star bright” uses direct address and nautical imagery
Additional Notes
The word appears in a literary seafaring context and is less common than the ordinary word sailor.; Found in the poem, The Mariner's Curse by Richard
Also Known As
seafarer sailor navigator ocean wanderer seaman
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