ship of the line

Questions about ship of the line

What is another word for ship of the line?

It depends which ship of the line you mean. In the sense “a warship intended for combat”, the synonyms are man-of-war. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 ship of the line?

WordNet records no antonym for ship of the line. 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 ship of the line 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 ship of the line

• Full entry for ship of the lineAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ship of the lineWhether 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.