FERRYMAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who operates a ferry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("ferryman" is a kind of...):

boater; boatman; waterman (someone who drives or rides in a boat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ferryman"):

Charon ((Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades)

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