patrol ship

1. 1.

   a vessel assigned to patrol an area

   Synonymspatrol boat

   Broadervessel

Questions about patrol ship

What does patrol ship mean?

patrol ship means "a vessel assigned to patrol an area".

What is another word for patrol ship?

Close synonyms include patrol boat. 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 patrol ship a common word?

patrol 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.