Definitions for mariners

mariners mar·i·ner

Spelling: [mar-uh-ner]
IPA: /ˈmær ə nər/

Mariners is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in mariners (aeimnrrs).

Definitions for mariners

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 mariners

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

Examples for mariners

The two mariners did not hesitate an instant, but bolted in opposite directions.

She commenced her return voyage with a pilot and five mariners.

The vessel moved gently from the shore, rowed by the mariners.

St. Anthony was called the patron of mariners, and therefore his aid was especially invoked.

It is said to have been published in the "Magazine for mariners."

Now you shall see whether I exaggerate about the mariners of Cornwall.

Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent.

The mariners and passengers were all crushed to death, or sank.

But it was destitute of mariners, itself seeming to live and move.

A few of the mariners were in the secret, and were in some degree prepared for what was to come.

Word Value for mariners
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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