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merchantship

merchantship is the alternative form of merchant ship.

Meaning of merchant ship

Noun

merchant ship (plural merchant ships)

  1. A ship that is principally or (usually) entirely civilian, engaged in trade, which carries cargo, passengers, or both.
    • Old pirates, yes, they rob I
      Sold I to the merchant ships
      Minutes after they took I
      From the bottomless pit.1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song
    Synonyms:
    merchantman

Forms of merchantship

pluralmerchantships

Questions about merchantship

What is merchantship the alternative form of?
Merchantship is the alternative form of merchant ship.

Words near merchantship in the dictionary

  1. merchantmen
  2. merchantries
  3. merchantry
  4. merchants
  5. merchants of death
  6. merchantship
  7. merchantships
  8. merchantwoman
  9. merchantwomen
  10. merchaundise
  11. merchaundises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merchantship (page history and authors); merchant 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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