abandoned ship

1. 1.

   a ship abandoned on the high seas

   Synonymsderelict

   Broadership

Questions about abandoned ship

What does abandoned ship mean?

abandoned ship means "a ship abandoned on the high seas".

What is another word for abandoned ship?

Close synonyms include derelict. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abandoned ship a common word?

abandoned ship is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.