troopship

1. 1.

   ship for transporting troops

   Broadershiptroop carrier

Other forms of troopship

plural

troopships·

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 troopship

What does troopship mean?

troopship means "ship for transporting troops".

How many syllables are in troopship?

troopship has 2 syllables and divides as troop-ship under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.