steamship
US/ˈstimˌʃɪp/
steamship noun: a ship or vessel propelled by steam power.
Noun
steamship (plural steamships)
- A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.
- Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264
- The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN
steamship meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
steamship in Hindi
- vessel propelled by steam
- स्टीमर sṭīmar, दिख़ानी जहाज़ dixānī jahāz
steamship in Urdu
- vessel propelled by steam
- دِخانی جَہاز dixānī jahāz, سْٹِیمَر sṭīmar
steamship in Bengali
- স্টিমশিপ
steamship in Telugu
- స్టీమ్ షిప్
More languagesFewer languages
- steamship in Malayalam
- സ്റ്റീംഷിപ്പ്, നീരാവിക്കപ്പൽ
- steamship in Kannada
- ಸ್ಟೀಮ್ಶಿಪ್
- steamship in Punjabi
- ਭਾਫ਼ ਵਾਲਾ ਜਹਾਜ਼, ਸਟੀਮਸ਼ਿਪ
- steamship in Gujarati
- સ્ટીમશીપ, સ્ટીમશિપ
- steamship in Odia
- ଷ୍ଟିମସିପ
- steamship in Nepali
- स्टीमशिप, स्टीमसिप, स्टिमशिप
- steamship in Pashto
- اوبېړۍ orbeṛǝy
- steamship in Tagalog
- buke
- steamship in Arabic
- بَاخِرَة bāḵira, سَفِينَة بُخَارِيَّة safīna buḵāriyya
- steamship in Malay
- kapal wap
- steamship in Indonesian
- kapal uap, kapal api
Examples of steamship in a sentence
- The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.
- The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.
- Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.
Synonyms of steamship
Forms of steamship
| plural | steamships |
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Origin of steamship
From steam + ship.
Words formed from steamship
- steamship round
Questions about steamship
- What does steamship mean?
- Steamship means a ship or vessel propelled by steam power.
- What is steamship in Hindi?
- Steamship in Hindi is स्टीमर (sṭīmar), दिख़ानी जहाज़ (dixānī jahāz). See Steamship meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is steamship?
- Steamship is a noun.
- How do you pronounce steamship?
- Steamship is pronounced /ˈstimˌʃɪp/ (US).
- What is the plural of steamship?
- The plural of steamship is steamships.
Words near steamship in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: steamship (page history and authors); steamship (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamship (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamship (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamship (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamship (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamship (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamship (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); steamship (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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