cargo ships

Questions about cargo ships

What is another word for cargo ships?

It depends which cargo ships you mean. In the sense “conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry”, the synonyms are shipping, merchant marine, merchant vessels. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cargo ships?

WordNet records no antonym for cargo ships. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cargo ships come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cargo ships

• Full entry for cargo shipsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cargo shipsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.