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containership

containership is the alternative spelling of container ship.

Meaning of container ship

Noun

container ship (plural container ships)

  1. A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers, especially shipping containers.
    Synonyms:
    container vessel, CV

Noun

containership (uncountable)

  1. (object-oriented programming) The conceptual containment of one object inside another.

Forms of containership

pluralcontainerships

Origin of containership

From container + ship.

From container + -ship.

Questions about containership

What does containership mean?
Containership means the conceptual containment of one object inside another.
What is containership the alternative spelling of?
Containership is the alternative spelling of container ship.
What part of speech is containership?
Containership is a noun.
What is the plural of containership?
The plural of containership is containerships.

Words near containership in the dictionary

  1. containerloads
  2. containerport
  3. containerports
  4. containers
  5. containersful
  6. containership
  7. containerships
  8. containerware
  9. containest
  10. containeth
  11. containing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: containership (page history and authors); container 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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