船員|せんいんsen'in[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounsailor; seaman; seafarer
   レインジャー隊たいは船員せんいんの救助きゅうじょに向むかうことを決きめた。↗

   The rangers decided to go to the sailor's rescue.

• Synonym船乗りふなのりNeutralA colloquial word for someone who makes their living at sea; carries a romantic image of the seafaring life.
• Synonym水夫すいふNeutralAn old-fashioned word for a sailor, stressing the manual labor of the job; 「船員」 is the umbrella term for anyone working aboard a ship.
• Synonym船人ふなびとWrittenA literary term for a boatman or someone aboard a boat; archaic and rarely seen in modern usage.
• SynonymマドロスNeutralA loanword from Dutch for a sailor, with an exotic flavor — familiar from enka lyrics.
• Synonym海員かいいんWrittenA formal, written-style term for a seaman, typical of union language, as in 「海員組合」.
• Related乗組員のりくみいんNeutralCrew members of a ship or aircraft; covers both sailors and flight crews but not passengers.
• Antonym陸上勤務者NeutralA person who works on land, the opposite of a 「船員」 working aboard ship.

Use 「船員」 as the general term for a ship's crew, as in 「船員手帳」. Say 「船乗り」 in casual talk about seafarers, 「海員」 in formal or union contexts, 「水夫」 for old-style sailors, and 「乗組員」 when flight crew are included.

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1. 船舶せんぱくの乗組員のりくみいん。