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shipway

shipway noun: the sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched.

Noun

shipway (plural shipways)

  1. The sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched.
  2. A navigable waterway large enough for ships.
    • Near-synonym: seaway
    Synonyms:
    seaway

Proper noun capitalized: Shipway

Shipway

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of shipway

Forms of shipway

pluralshipways

Origin of shipway

From ship + way.

Questions about shipway

What does shipway mean?
Shipway means the sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched.
What part of speech is shipway?
Shipway can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of shipway?
The plural of shipway is shipways.

Words near shipway in the dictionary

  1. Shiptons
  2. Shiptonthorpe
  3. shiptracks
  4. shipward
  5. shipwards
  6. shipway
  7. shipways
  8. shipwide
  9. shipwork
  10. shipworker
  11. shipworkers

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