seaman   (Sound)

The noun seaman has 2 senses

• mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog -- (a man who serves as a sailor)


• Seaman, Elizabeth Seaman, Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, Nellie Bly -- (muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922))