seagoing

English

Alternative forms

• sea-going

Etymology

sea +‎ going

Adjective

seagoing (not comparable)

1. Travelling out to sea.

   a seagoing seal

2. Made for, fit for sailing on, or used on the high seas.

   Synonyms: seafaring, seaworthy

   Coordinate term: ocean-going

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:

     "Lord! They don't call that a sea-going craft, I hope!'

Translations

made for, fit for sailing on, or used on the high seas

• Bulgarian: мореходен (morehoden), за открито море (za otkrito more)
• Danish: havgående, søgående
• Finnish: avomeri- (fi), merikelpoinen
• German: seetüchtig (de)
• Latin: permarīnus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøgående, havgående

  Nynorsk: sjøgåande, havgåande

• Russian: морехо́дный (ru) (morexódnyj), морско́й (ru) (morskój)
• Swedish: sjögående (sv)