nautical

relating to sailors ships or sea travel

Root

  • naut: sailor or voyager

Other words with the naut root

  • aeronaut: air traveler or balloonist
  • argonaut: adventurer or member of Jason's mythical crew
  • astronaut: space traveler
  • cosmonaut: space traveler especially in the Russian tradition
  • nautilus: a sea mollusk with a spiral shell

Naut is the sailor. Nautical things belong to sailors ships and life at sea.

A nautical mile belongs to the old world of travel by sea and sky.

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