sailors
- 1Plural of sailor.
The sailors hauled in the nets as the storm closed in.
Veteran sailors can read the weather by the color of the sky.
Note
A regular plural, and one that reaches well beyond the deck. The same form names several Neptis, Pseudoneptis and Phaedyma butterflies, dark-winged with white markings and known for gliding flight. It also names stiff, flat-brimmed straw hats and, in brickwork, bricks set upright on their shortest end with the broad face showing. Context settles which is meant: sailors hauling nets are people, sailors in a wall are bricks.
sailors is a form of sailor
sailor, noun: A member of a ship's crew who carries out the ordinary work of the vessel, ranking below the captain and officers; a common seaman or mariner. Full entry
- Forms
- sailorsailors plural
- Spelling
- sailor → sailors: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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