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sea captain

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sea captain
n.
The captain of a ship, especially a merchant ship.
sea captain
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) the master of a ship, usually a merchant ship
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Noun1.sea captain - an officer who is licensed to command a merchant shipsea captain - an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
skipper, captain, master
ship's officer, officer - a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines"
Translations
sea captain n → capitano di lungo corso (nella marina mercantile)
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--The funeral of the poor sea captain today was most touching.
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I was not now at Redriff, where, if I had set myself tolerably up, some honest sea captain or other might have talked with me upon the honourable terms of matrimony; but I was at the Bath, where men find a mistress sometimes, but very rarely look for a wife; and consequently all the particular acquaintances a woman can expect to make there must have some tendency that way.
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