steerage
steerage noun: the art of steering.
Noun
steerage (countable and uncountable, plural steerages)
- The art of steering.
- The section of a passenger ship that provided inexpensive accommodation with no individual cabins.
- It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,
For there's near a hundred for'ard, and they're stowed away like sheep1896, Henry Lawson, For`ard - Hope was alive again in my breast, and I looked about me with greater coolness. I noted that the boats were missing. The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle. The hunters had packed their belongings with similar haste. The Ghost was deserted. It was Maud's and mine. I thought of the ship's...1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
- It is stuffy in the steerage where the second-classers sleep,
- The effect of the helm on a ship.
steerage meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
steerage in Bengali
- জাহাজের নিম্নশ্রেণির যাত্রীদের স্থান, পরিচালনা
steerage in Malayalam
- ചുക്കാൻ പിടിച്ചു നടത്തൽ, ഭരണം നടത്തൽ, ഗതിനിയന്ത്രണം
Examples of steerage in a sentence
- The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
- “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
Forms of steerage
| plural | steerages |
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Origin of steerage
From steer + -age.
Words formed from steerage
Phrases with steerage
Questions about steerage
- What does steerage mean?
- Steerage means the art of steering.
- What is steerage in Bengali?
- Steerage in Bengali is জাহাজের নিম্নশ্রেণির যাত্রীদের স্থান, পরিচালনা. See Steerage meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use steerage in a sentence?
- The steerage told the same tale as the forecastle.
- What part of speech is steerage?
- Steerage is a noun.
- What is the plural of steerage?
- The plural of steerage is steerages.
Words near steerage in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: steerage (page history and authors); steerage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); steerage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.
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