midships

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”

   Synonymsamidshipsamidship

Questions about midships

What does midships mean?

midships means "at or near or toward the center of a ship".

How many syllables are in midships?

midships has 2 syllables: mid-ships. The stress falls on "mid".

What is another word for midships?

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

midships 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.