maritime
/ˈmæɹ.ɪˌtaɪm/ adjective C1- Relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.). · maritime law· maritime insurance
- Bordering on the sea; living near the seacoast; coastal. · the maritime states; a maritime people
- Inhabiting the seashore; living coastwise; littoral. (distinguished from marine) · a maritime bird or animal
- Of or relating to a sailor or seaman; nautical.
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A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had died and left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces, according to their respective standings.
Already Dantès had visited this maritime Bourse two or three times, and seeing all these hardy free-traders, who supplied the whole coast for nearly two hundred leagues in extent, he had asked himself what power might not that man attain who should give the impulse of his will to all these contrary and diverging minds.
In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and, finally, maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of a hundred thousand souls, where the tenement houses swelter and reek with the outcasts of Europe.
The ship became an enduring symbol of excellence and maritime pride for the entire nation.
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