training ship

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   a ship used to train students as sailors

   Synonymsschool ship

   Broadership

Questions about training ship

What does training ship mean?

training ship means "a ship used to train students as sailors".

What is another word for training ship?

Close synonyms include school ship. 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 training ship a common word?

training 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.