ship builder

Questions about ship builder

What does ship builder mean?

ship builder means "a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for ship builder?

Close synonyms include shipwright, shipbuilder, shipbuilder. 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 builder a common word?

ship builder is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.