Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
Someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship, especially a novice seaman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lubber
Antonyms: none provided
an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lubber, landsman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: novice, beginner, tyro, tiro, initiate
a person who lives and works on land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: landsman, landman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
Extension (with land) of earlier lubber. Compare also landloper.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Chinese Mandarin:
旱鴨子 /旱鸭子
(hànyāzi)
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Danish:
landkrabbe
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Dutch:
landrot
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Dutch:
zoetwatermatroos
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Esperanto:
ŝipanaĉo
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Esperanto:
terulaĉo
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Finnish:
maakrapu
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
French:
marin d'eau douce
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
German:
Landratte
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Hebrew:
אִישׁ יַבָּשָׁה
(ish yabasha)
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Hebrew:
עַכְבַּר יַבָּשָׁה
(akhbar yabasha)
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Hebrew:
גֹּלֶם יַבָּשָׁה
(golem yabasha)
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Hebrew:
יַבָּשְׁתָּן
(yabashtan)
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Hungarian:
szárazföldi patkány
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Icelandic:
landkrabbi
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Irish:
aineolaí mara
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Irish:
caslóir
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Italian:
marinaio d'acqua dolce
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Italian:
marinaio inesperto
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Norwegian Bokmål:
landkrabbe
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Norwegian Nynorsk:
landkrabbe
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Polish:
szczur lądowy
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Portuguese:
marinheiro de água doce
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Portuguese:
marambaia
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Russian:
сухопу́тная кры́са
(suxopútnaja krýsa)
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Spanish:
marinero de agua dulce
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
-
Swedish:
landkrabba
— someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship
