amidship

1. 1.

   at or near or toward the center of a ship

   “in the late 19th century, engines were placed in front, amidships, and at the rear”

   Synonymsamidshipsmidships
2. 2.

   at or near or toward the middle

1. 1.

   located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft

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Questions about amidship

What does amidship mean?

amidship means "at or near or toward the center of a ship". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amidship?

amidship has 3 syllables: a-mid-ship. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for amidship?

Close synonyms include amidships, midships. 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 amidship a common word?

amidship 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.