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shipbuilders

shipbuilders is the plural of shipbuilder.

Meaning of shipbuilder

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.

Questions about shipbuilders

What is shipbuilders the plural of?
Shipbuilders is the plural of shipbuilder.

Words near shipbuilders in the dictionary

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

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