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nautical
/ ˈnɔːtɪkəl /
adjective
- of, relating to, or involving ships, navigation, or sailors
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Derived Forms
- ˈnautically, adverb
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Other Words From
- nau·ti·cal·i·ty [naw-ti-, kal, -i-tee, not-i-], noun
- nauti·cal·ly adverb
- non·nauti·cal adjective
- non·nauti·cal·ly adverb
- un·nauti·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nautical1
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Example Sentences
Leave it to one of America's oldest artist colonies to put a uniquely creative spin on this nautical holiday tradition.
Dana Kennedy on the nautical newcomers and diminishing glamour of St. Tropez and Monte Carlo.
No thanks; you have just stretched the concept a few nautical miles too far.
The object and the means were the revival of the nautical labourer of twenty years before.
He seems to have forgotten his nautical labourer patented twenty years before; but yet reproduced something very similar.
One day her mother heard her singing a popular nautical ballad, on the devotion of a sailor's bride to her betrothed.
The great steamer went ahead at the rate of five nautical miles an hour, and the cable passed smoothly overboard.
Ten minutes' hard work, in which we assisted, produced something a trifle more nautical and seaworthy than the first craft.
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