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shipbuilder

shipbuilder noun: a person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.

Noun

shipbuilder (plural shipbuilders)

  1. A person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.
    • Referring to the genealogy of the Dobie family, we find that it can be traced back to the sixteenth century, when the Dobies of Dobie's Lane were prominent shipbuilders in the seaport town of Leith, Scotland.1902, James Miller Guinn, Historical and Biographical Record of Southern California: Containing a History of Southern California from Its Earliest Settlement to the Opening Year of the Twentieth...
  2. A firm that specializes in building ships.

shipbuilder meaning in Gujarati

shipbuilder in Gujarati

shipbuilder
વાડિયો vāḍiyo

Forms of shipbuilder

pluralshipbuilders

Origin of shipbuilder

From ship + builder.

Questions about shipbuilder

What does shipbuilder mean?
Shipbuilder means a person who builds vessels such as ships and boats.
What is shipbuilder in Gujarati?
Shipbuilder in Gujarati is વાડિયો (vāḍiyo). See Shipbuilder meaning in Gujarati.
What part of speech is shipbuilder?
Shipbuilder is a noun.
What is the plural of shipbuilder?
The plural of shipbuilder is shipbuilders.

Words near shipbuilder in the dictionary

  1. shipbreaking
  2. shipbroken
  3. shipbroker
  4. shipbrokers
  5. shipbroking
  6. shipbuilder
  7. shipbuilders
  8. shipbuilding
  9. shipbuildings
  10. shipcarver
  11. shipcarvers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shipbuilder (page history and authors); વાડિયો (Gujarati) (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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