Word.ws English Dictionary

shipfitter

shipfitter noun: a person employed to fabricate and assemble the structural parts of a ship.

Noun

shipfitter (plural shipfitters)

  1. A person employed to fabricate and assemble the structural parts of a ship.

Forms of shipfitter

pluralshipfitters

Origin of shipfitter

From ship + fitter.

Questions about shipfitter

What does shipfitter mean?
Shipfitter means a person employed to fabricate and assemble the structural parts of a ship.
What part of speech is shipfitter?
Shipfitter is a noun.
What is the plural of shipfitter?
The plural of shipfitter is shipfitters.

Words near shipfitter in the dictionary

  1. shipentines
  2. Shipes
  3. Shipeses
  4. shipfic
  5. shipfics
  6. shipfitter
  7. shipfitters
  8. shipfitting
  9. shipful
  10. shipfuls
  11. shipfyrd

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shipfitter (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shipfitter.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shipfitter. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.