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landsman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun landsman has 2 senses
- landsman(n = noun.person) landlubber, landman - a person who lives and works on land; Array is a kind of denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant
- landsman(n = noun.person) landlubber, lubber - an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage; Array is a kind of beginner, initiate, novice, tiro, tyro
CIDE DICTIONARY
landsman, n.
- One who lives on the land; -- opposed to
seaman . [1913 Webster] - A sailor on his first voyage. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
landsman
Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
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