ship building

1. 1.

   the construction of ships

   Synonymsshipbuilding

   Broaderconstruction

Questions about ship building

What does ship building mean?

ship building means "the construction of ships".

What is another word for ship building?

Close synonyms include shipbuilding. 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 building a common word?

ship building 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.