steamship

noun

Definition of steamshipnext
as in steamer

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Recent Examples of steamship With the advent of the steamship, the cost of passage plummeted, and companies offered special immigrant fares that were often coupled with rail tickets to the interior of the country. — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026 The original Dow index from 1884 had 11 stocks in it, and nine of them were railroads (the other two were a steamship company and Western Union). — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 15 June 2026 Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba. — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026 In 1868, at the age of 29, John Muir arrived in San Francisco via steamship with definitive plans to wander and revel in the natural wonders of California—he’d heard of the Golden State’s geographic riches and wanted to see them for himself. — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for steamship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
  1. steamer
  2. barge
  3. freighter
  4. ferryboat
  5. warship
  6. tanker
  7. merchantman
  8. cutter
Noun
  • In between dry cleaner drop-offs, use a steamer to de-wrinkle your suit.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • Leave your travel steamer at home, and check out more of the most popular wrinkle-resistant tops from Amazon’s fashion department.
    — Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
Definition of steamer
Noun
  • These include the Type 91 surface-to-air missile barge, Type 92 underwater sensing vessel, Type 93 autonomous submarine, and Type 94 surface sensing vessel, all of which form part of the UK’s broader Hybrid Navy concept.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • The dredge is conducted by crane and excavator barges that dig sand up and deposit it in another barge.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
Definition of barge
Noun
  • Ballast water the likely vector Researchers believe the bloody red shrimp first arrived in the Great Lakes from ballast water released from freighter ships that also travel the oceans.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 July 2026
  • Best International Narrative Feature went to Labrador — Autopsy of Silence, directed by Rodrigue Jean, which follows an Inuk mechanic who is suspected of murder on a freighter.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 June 2026
Definition of freighter
Noun
  • But nearly a decade since the first city-run ferryboat set sail, the system has been working to win over skeptics.
    — Julia Press, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026
  • Crofton will be the only living person with a Disney ferryboat named after her.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026
Definition of ferryboat
Noun
  • The Choe Hyon is North Korea's most advanced warship.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026
  • Under Article 110 of UNCLOS, stateless vessels belong to no nation, so any state’s warship may exercise the right of visit and board the vessel to check its papers.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of warship
Noun
  • Sinokor’s aggressive buying combined with a swell in oil flows to send tanker rates surging even before the US and Israeli strikes on Iran led to the effective closure of the world’s most important oil shipping lane.
    — Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
  • Riyadh largely paused shipments from its Gulf export terminals of Ras Tanura and Juaymah on March 9 after tanker traffic through Hormuz plunged due to Iranian attacks.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 July 2026
Definition of tanker
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    — Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Definition of merchantman
Noun
  • And there was Fred Raskin, Gunn’s longtime cutter who worked on all the Guardians of the Galaxy movies and Gunn’s DC series Peacemaker.
    — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
  • The Coast Guard cutter Eagle eased into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Definition of cutter

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