sailing ship

Questions about sailing ship

What does sailing ship mean?

sailing ship means "a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts".

What is another word for sailing ship?

Close synonyms include sailing vessel. 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 sailing ship a common word?

sailing 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.