ship

1. 1.

   a vessel that carries passengers or freight

   Broadervessel

   Narrowerabandoned shipblockade-runnerBountycargo shipflagshipgas-turbine shiphospital shiphulkicebreakerlightship

   Part offleet

   Partsbaybilge pumpbilge wellbulkheadbulwarkcargo area

Other forms of ship

plural

ships·

past tense or participle

shipped

present participle

shipping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ship

What does ship mean?

ship means "transport commercially". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ship?

ship has 1 syllable: ship. In IPA it is /ˈʃɪp/.

What is another word for ship?

Close synonyms include transport, send, embark. 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 ship a common word?

ship is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ship?

54 words rhyme with ship. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.