Word.ws English Dictionary

aship

aship adverb: on or onto a ship.

Adverb

aship (not comparable)

  1. (US, dated, rare) On or onto a ship.
    • […] it was certainly one of the most exciting and uncomfortable weeks I ever spent, either aship or ashore.1880, Mark Twain, chapter 17, in A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 154
    • then the stern line was thrown aship, and the boat was off1912, Charles E. Young, chapter 6, in Dangers of the Trail in 1865, Geneva, NY: Press of W.F. Humphrey, page 116
    Synonyms:
    aboard, on board
    Antonyms:
    ashore

Synonyms of aship

Antonyms

Origin of aship

From a- + ship.

Questions about aship

What does aship mean?
Aship means on or onto a ship.
What part of speech is aship?
Aship is an adverb.

Words near aship in the dictionary

  1. ashine
  2. ashiness
  3. ashing
  4. ashings
  5. Ashington
  6. aship
  7. ashipboard
  8. Ashippun
  9. ashipu
  10. ashipus
  11. ashiq

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aship (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “aship.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/aship. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.