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shiproom

shiproom noun: storage space on a ship.

Noun

shiproom (uncountable)

  1. Storage space on a ship.
    • Sometimes the boats ran out of drinking water and food on the journey, and for most emigrants a coffin-shaped space between other bunks or a small square on deck was all the shiproom they had for themselves and the bundle of luggage they took with them to their new lives.1961, Lois Mitchison, The overseas Chinese

Origin of shiproom

From ship + room.

Questions about shiproom

What does shiproom mean?
Shiproom means storage space on a ship.
What part of speech is shiproom?
Shiproom is a noun.

Words near shiproom in the dictionary

  1. shipps
  2. Shippses
  3. shippy
  4. Shippys
  5. Shiprock
  6. shiproom
  7. ships
  8. ships a sea
  9. ships in a bottle
  10. ships in bottles
  11. ships in the night

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