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sailing ship

sailing ship noun: a ship with masts and sails, powered by the wind.

Noun

sailing ship (plural sailing ships)

  1. A ship with masts and sails, powered by the wind.
    Synonyms:
    sail, sailing vessel

sailing ship meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Malay

sailing ship in Tamil

வத்தை, பாய்மரக்கப்பல்

sailing ship in Kannada

ಹಾಯಿಹಡಗು

sailing ship in Arabic

type of ship
سَفِينَة شَرَاعِيَّة

sailing ship in Malay

type of ship
kapal layar
More languagesFewer languages
sailing ship in Indonesian
kapal layar
sailing ship in Vietnamese
thuyền buồm

Synonyms of sailing ship

Forms of sailing ship

pluralsailing ships

Questions about sailing ship

What does sailing ship mean?
Sailing ship means a ship with masts and sails, powered by the wind.
What is sailing ship in Tamil?
Sailing ship in Tamil is வத்தை, பாய்மரக்கப்பல். See Sailing ship meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sailing ship?
Sailing ship is a noun.
What is the plural of sailing ship?
The plural of sailing ship is sailing ships.

Words near sailing ship in the dictionary

  1. sailing boat
  2. sailing boats
  3. sailing close to the wind
  4. sailing dinghies
  5. sailing dinghy
  6. sailing ship
  7. sailing ships
  8. sailing the Red Sea
  9. sailing through
  10. sailing under false colors
  11. sailing vessel

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