surface ship

1. 1.

   a warship that operates on the surface of the water

   Antonymssubmersible

   Broaderwarship

Questions about surface ship

What does surface ship mean?

surface ship means "a warship that operates on the surface of the water".

What is the opposite of surface ship?

The recorded antonyms are submersible.

Is surface ship a common word?

surface 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.