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liberty ship

liberty ship noun: a simple, cheap cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.

liberty ship: a simple, cheap cargo ship built in the United States during World War II
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Noun

liberty ship (plural liberty ships)

  1. A simple, cheap cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.

liberty ship meaning in Tamil

liberty ship in Tamil

அயலகப் போர்க் கப்பல்

Forms of liberty ship

pluralliberty ships

Origin of liberty ship

Originally used in a speech by then U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt when the first of the ships were launched to emphasize their purpose, and then later spread.

Questions about liberty ship

What does liberty ship mean?
Liberty ship means a simple, cheap cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.
What is liberty ship in Tamil?
Liberty ship in Tamil is அயலகப் போர்க் கப்பல். See Liberty ship meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is liberty ship?
Liberty ship is a noun.
What is the plural of liberty ship?
The plural of liberty ship is liberty ships.

Words near liberty ship in the dictionary

  1. liberty poles
  2. liberty sandwich
  3. liberty sandwiches
  4. liberty sausage
  5. liberty sausages
  6. liberty ship
  7. liberty ships
  8. liberty spike
  9. liberty spikes
  10. liberty steak
  11. liberty steaks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: liberty ship (page history and authors); liberty ship (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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