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-ships

-ships is the plural of -ship.

Meaning of -ship

Suffix

-ship (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -ships)

  1. Appended to a noun to form a new noun denoting a property or state of being, time spent in a role, or a specialised union. In particular, the way a set of social duties associated with a particular role shapes or develop's one's character.
    • fellow + -ship → fellowship
    Synonyms:
    -ness, -hood, -itude, -th, -ity, -dom

Questions about -ships

What is -ships the plural of?
-ships is the plural of -ship.

Words near -ships in the dictionary

  1. -set
  2. -setron
  3. -sexual
  4. -sful
  5. -ship
  6. -ships
  7. -shire
  8. -sicle
  9. -sicles
  10. -side
  11. -sie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ships (page history and authors); -ship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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