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shipper

Syllables: ship·per/ˈʃɪp.ə/US/ˈʃɪp.ɚ/

shipper noun: a seaman; mariner; skipper.

Noun (1)

shipper (plural shippers)

  1. (archaic) A seaman; mariner; skipper.
  2. The person or organization that ships (sends) something.
    • The shipper should have paid for insurance on the package, because it was damaged when it arrived.
  3. A box for shipping something fragile, such as bottled beer or wine.

Noun (2)

shipper (plural shippers)

  1. (slang) A person who supports a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters or real people.
    • For creative fans and committed 'shippers^([sic]), fanfiction continues the interaction — the dialogue, the conversation, the story […]2013, Jennifer K. Stuller, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, page 42
    Synonyms:
    relationshipper
    Antonyms:
    anti-shipper

shipper meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Punjabi

shipper in Tamil

கப்பல் சரக்கு அனுப்புநர்

shipper in Urdu

شپنگ کرنے والا

shipper in Malayalam

ചരക്കുകയറ്റി അയയ്ക്കുന്നവൻ

shipper in Punjabi

ਸ਼ਿਪਰ
More languagesFewer languages
shipper in Gujarati
શિપ કરનાર
shipper in Nepali
ढुवानीकर्ता

Examples of shipper in a sentence

  • Cloti and Clerith shippers have gifted us with sultry fanfic, flashy video edits, and cute art.
  • This goes out for all the Butchlander shippers as a reminder.
  • You don’t have to be in shipper wars or anything like that.”

All 40 example sentences with shipper

Synonyms of shipper

Antonyms

Forms of shipper

pluralshippers

Plural of shipper: shippers

Origin of shipper

Either formed anew from ship + -er or borrowed from Middle Low German schipper; compare skipper and Old English sċipere (“sailor”). Piecewise doublet of skipper (“captain, sailor”).

From a clipping of relationshipper. Relationshipper emerged in early online fandom of the television series The X-Files as a term for fans who supported the possibility of a Mulder/Scully romance. It was shortened to r'shipper, then 'shipper, and finally shipper. By surface analysis, ship (“to create a fictional romantic relationship”) + -er.

Words formed from shipper

Words that rhyme with shipper

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Questions about shipper

What does shipper mean?
Shipper means a seaman; mariner; skipper.
What is shipper in Tamil?
Shipper in Tamil is கப்பல் சரக்கு அனுப்புநர். See Shipper meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shipper?
Shipper is a noun.
How do you pronounce shipper?
Shipper is pronounced /ˈʃɪp.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of shipper?
The plural of shipper is shippers.

Words near shipper in the dictionary

  1. Shippee
  2. Shippees
  3. shippen
  4. shippens
  5. Shippensburg
  6. shipper
  7. shipperdom
  8. shipperhood
  9. shippers
  10. shippery
  11. shippes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shipper (page history and authors); shipper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shipper (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipper (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shipper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shipper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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