tunnage

1. 1.

   a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship

   Synonymstonnagetonnage duty

   Broaderduty

Other forms of tunnage

plural

tunnages·

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 tunnage

What does tunnage mean?

tunnage means "a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship".

How many syllables are in tunnage?

tunnage has 2 syllables: tun-nage. The stress falls on "tun".

What is another word for tunnage?

Close synonyms include tonnage, tonnage duty. 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 tunnage a common word?

tunnage 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.