Word.ws English Dictionary

slipways

slipways is the plural of slipway.

Meaning of slipway

Noun

slipway (plural slipways)

  1. A sloping surface, leading down to the shore or to a river, on which ships are built, repaired or stored and from which they are launched.
    Synonyms:
    building-slip
  2. A slip road.
    • Immediately beyond the 'No entrance' sign onto the motorway slipway, turn right down the bank.2002, Michael Smout, Merseyside Meanders, →ISBN, page 98

Questions about slipways

What is slipways the plural of?
Slipways is the plural of slipway.

Words near slipways in the dictionary

  1. slipup
  2. slipups
  3. slipware
  4. slipwares
  5. slipway
  6. slipways
  7. Slipyj
  8. SLIs
  9. slish
  10. slished
  11. slishes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slipways (page history and authors); slipway (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: “slipways.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/slipways. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.