Definitions for Mariner

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Mariner mar·i·ner

Spelling: [mar-uh-ner]

IPA: /ˈmær ə nər/

Mariner is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in Mariner (aeimnrr).

Definitions for Mariner

noun

1. a person who directs or assists in the navigation of a ship; sailor.
2. (initial capital letter) Aerospace. one of a series of U.S. space probes that obtained scientific information while flying by or orbiting around the planets Mars, Mercury, and Venus.

Origin of Mariner

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French; Old French marinier. See marine, -er²

Examples for Mariner

There was no mariner who sailed the seas so insignificant as not to be hailed by Esther.

"He couldna see her bones, nor her his bow-legs," the mariner phrased it.

“The immediate effort to cover up what had been done suggested that they realized it was a crime,” said mariner.

I have seen a deal of life, and have been a mariner this thirty year or more.

In common with other ancients they knew the principle of the mariner's compass.

Shall I appoint a mariner to be skipper of my vessel, or a landsman?

You rescue the mariner from shipwreck without wetting your feet.

Upon the middle one are the lighthouses that warn the mariner.

He was mariner's patron and protector until his death in 1809.

Happiness Like Water, by Chinelo Okparanta; 208 pp., mariner Books, $15.